“It’s unfortunate that in today’s hyper-partisan atmosphere, she gets so little credit for doing exactly what judges are supposed to do.”

….of any group, including those that may have supported their appointment,” he said.
Criticism is fair, Fogel added, but it’s “it’s equally inappropriate to vilify them personally simply because they don’t adhere to political orthodoxy in every case.”

Jeremy Fogel, a former federal judge in California, said judges bring to the bench their different life experiences and philosophies that affect how they do their job.

“But it’s inappropriate to expect them to decide cases based on the political preferences — right, left or center —…

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Even before Mr. Trump’s first-term appointments, the court was beginning to shed its identity as a bastion of liberal jurisprudence, according to Jeremy Fogel, a retired federal judge who served in the Northern District of California.

Here, there’s no question that the ethical issues surrounding the two justices have affected public confidence in the judiciary generally, and the commission apparently saw a need to acknowledge that."

…to avoid political controversy; they tend to be very measured in their public comments, with a goal both of providing useful guidance to judges and of assuring the public that they take their responsibilities seriously…..

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"I think that the commission’s statement is extraordinary," said Jeremy Fogel, a retired federal trial judge and executive director of the Berkeley Judicial Institute. "Typically, state judicial performance organizations seek to….