Andrew C. McCarthy: “I was a prosecutor for many years, so I can’t say I’ve never seen such overt judicial loathing of a defendant and/or his counsel. But on those rare occasions, one usually finds sociopathic defendants who’ve committed heinous crimes, or lawyers whose tactics skirt the lines of suborning perjury and the like. Here, there is nothing like that. There is just … Trump. Judicial decorum demands that a judge have some rationale for this kind of indignation other than the defendant’s person. Yet that’s not what’s going on here.”
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Andrew C. McCarthy: “I was a prosecutor for many years, so I can’t say I’ve never seen such overt judicial loathing of a defendant and/or his counsel. But on those rare occasions, one usually finds sociopathic defendants who’ve committed heinous crimes, or lawyers whose tactics skirt the lines of suborning perjury and the like. Here, there is nothing like that. There is just … Trump. Judicial decorum demands that a judge have some rationale for this kind of indignation other than the defendant’s person. Yet that’s not what’s going on here.”