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fromABA Journal
2 weeks ago

Judge presiding over Border Patrol murder-plot case warned of threats to judges after family members were killed

Judge Joan Lefkow, whose family was killed in 2005, presides over trial of Juan Espinoza Martinez accused of soliciting murder of Border Patrol commander Bovino.
fromAbove the Law
4 months ago

Do You REALLY Want To Be A Judge? - Above the Law

Decades ago, when I was a baby lawyer, I thought that I wanted to be a judge. Judges ran courtrooms, or the clerks did. The judge was almost always a white male (female judges hadn't really cracked the judicial glass ceiling, let alone had a person of color). He belonged to the right, white clubs, could leave early for a tee time if all the cases had either been settled, trialed, or off calendar.
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