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VOX

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9. Ideally, yes, but many judges no longer adhere to impartiality in real life.
Fri Mar 8, 2019, 07:29 AM
Mar 2019

Like the clearly right-wing biased Judge Ellis, for starters. He was marked as such back in August of last year.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/opinions/the-extraordinary-bias-of-the-judge-in-the-manafort-trial/2018/08/16/aca48040-a16c-11e8-83d2-70203b8d7b44_story.html
The extraordinary bias of the judge in the Manafort trial
Washington Post
By Nancy Gertner
August 16, 2018
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The performance of U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III in the trial of Paul Manafort on bank fraud and tax evasion charges has been decidedly unusual.

During the trial, Ellis intervened regularly, and mainly against one side: the prosecution. The judge's interruptions occurred in the presence of the jury and on matters of substance, not courtroom conduct. He disparaged the prosecution's evidence, misstated its legal theories, even implied that prosecutors had disobeyed his orders when they had not.
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Trump began this nonsense Amyishere Mar 2019 #1
Trump was right. mr_liberal Mar 2019 #2
Sadly this is a fact. That is why lawyers shop around for the best venue for their case. SunSeeker Mar 2019 #3
After the Manafort sentencing pressbox69 Mar 2019 #4
Obama had a SCOTUS judge pick IGNORED. Democrats got ZERO from that "choice." VOX Mar 2019 #8
Well said! Brawndo Mar 2019 #20
Thanks. VOX Mar 2019 #21
Sure! You bring up a point worth repeating Brawndo Mar 2019 #23
Thanks, friend. The matter needs to be drilled repeatedly. VOX Mar 2019 #24
No, Republicans choose conservatives, Democrats choose non-conservatives JHB Mar 2019 #12
Dems tend just appoint judges who follow the law. SunSeeker Mar 2019 #14
oh come on fescuerescue Mar 2019 #15
"Everybody" does not know that. One side actively cultivates a farm team... JHB Mar 2019 #18
ok fescuerescue Mar 2019 #19
Please refrain from taking my point to absurd extremes JHB Mar 2019 #22
Respectfully, I thought the original point was a bit absurb. fescuerescue Mar 2019 #25
Conservatives have made ideological "correctness" mandatory for... JHB Mar 2019 #5
This sentence given Manafort duforsure Mar 2019 #6
Judges by law are supposed to be non-partisan. Chin music Mar 2019 #7
Ideally, yes, but many judges no longer adhere to impartiality in real life. VOX Mar 2019 #9
Don't mistake partisanship for weirdness theboss Mar 2019 #17
Yes. I know. Chin music Mar 2019 #26
regardless of any of that, what the judge did in this case is fucked up in itself JI7 Mar 2019 #10
I'm thinking it is only important to know that Ellis was appointed by Reagan because Silver Gaia Mar 2019 #11
Vinca may have the answer to this: Lars39 Mar 2019 #13
I think people misapply political philosphies to criminal law. theboss Mar 2019 #16
Ellis, Judge Boof, Gorsucks et al are all politicians in robes. Some, like Ellis are Hassler Mar 2019 #27
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