Hints and tips:
...John Roberts, the chief justice, famously said that judges were like umpires. “Umpires don’t make the rules, they apply them.” No baseball crowd would tolerate a biased umpire....
...The property features three boathouses, a clay tennis court and a life-size replica of Hagrid’s Hut, which served as a home for a Harry Potter character....
...When we take a bottle of expensive wine to dinner, foodies will note the implied value; when it emerged that Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court judge, had received vacations as “gifts” from Harlan Crow,...
...Articles like this don’t help their cause....
...If I were a judge, I might arch my eyebrow. Author Tom Bower described Sherborne as “media-hating”. “I don’t hate the media at all!” he protests....
...to take up her position as a senior judge....
...It’s hard to appreciate the minuscule detail, made from layering tiny fragments of clay, without being very close to it....
...Every time the machine swallows a disc, a raw-clay platter emerges on the opposite side....
...And she said, ‘You don’t need proof, you need to get rid of him,’” says Mack. “I said, ‘Sorry I don’t do that sort of thing.’...
...The appeals court judges who heard the González case appear to have this rose-tinted view of how algorithms work....
...“There are a lot of great features of bankruptcy that don’t exist outside of the process....
...“Women who have access to resources will probably be far less impacted by this decision than women who don’t have resources....
...work with me, and I don’t involve him in my work.”...
...There are ways to manage inflation and recession, says Don Ezra, but safety comes at a price....
...And this may just be the beginning, given the growing influence of arch conservative justice Clarence Thomas, writes Jill Abramson....
...If you pretend you don’t have one, you are lying to yourself.”...
...For years, Samuel Alito has been overshadowed in the public eye by Supreme Court conservative stalwarts such as Clarence Thomas and the late Antonin Scalia, a fellow Italian-American with a similar judicial...
...Also, in the FT, don’t miss the terrific “tick-tock” piece about the new era of financial warfare....
...It is not so straightforward to judge a state’s performance in the pandemic, given their differences and the quality of their reported data....
...Things don’t always go smoothly....
...Weems’s work translates as “Don’t worry. We will hold hands again”, a rousing, comforting eulogy to togetherness in the post-Covid tumult....
...The Royals don’t look out of place in that portfolio thanks to the growth of the IPL....
...Yet he has been ruthless in dispensing with the “testifying, death-defying, legendary E Street Band” when he judges it necessary....
...“If you’re driving a car down a well-paved road you don’t need a lot of the safety features....
...Christie Brown’s pieces pick up on the celebrity strand, modelling the judges of Strictly Come Dancing and the cast of Love Island....
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