Commentary: A Judge's New Year's Resolutions

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As the New Year approaches, I will break from my series on judicial philosophy and propose my own New Year's resolutions.

I resolve to understand, as I listen to and see on a daily basis in my job truly horrifying, as well as occasionally happy events and people, that the law can and should attempt to make things right. However, the law is usually limited, as are judges, in what can be accomplished.

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Commentary: A Judge's New Year's Resolutions

Specifically, we are usually confined to imposing a small quantum of order and predictability on the vagaries of our existence and to softening the rough edges of our fellow citizens' lives. It is import...

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