Criticism and as i am barked on my own legal career i resolved to maintain that same perspective theres a tendency in our profession to treat the practice of law as all consuming while losing sight of Everything Else but that makes for a shallow and unfulfilling life i worked hard as a lawyer and as a professor i owed that to my clients to my students and to myself but i never let the law define my identity or crowd out the rest of my life a similar principle applies to the role of court courts have a vital responsibility to the rule of law which is critical to a free society but courts are not designed to solve every problem or right every wrong in our public life the policy decisions and value judgments of government must be made. The people the public should not expect courts to do so and courts should not try that is the approach that i have strived to follow as a judge on the 7th circuit and every case i have carefully considered the arguments presented by the parties discussed th
A place at the negotiating table. When more and more migrants are risking a dangerous new atlantic route from africa to europe via the Canary Islands. And a planet transformed into an uninhabitable hell a un report says World Leaders are failing in their duty to stop climate disaster. We start in the United States where a divided senate is pressing ahead with the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Kearney Barrett just 3 weeks before the president ial election she was nominated by President Trump and her confirmation would increase the conservative majority in the Supreme Court alan fisher has been following events on capitol hill in washington d. C. The goal to have amy quiney bennett on the u. S. Supreme court before the president ial election the 1st step the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing 16 days after her formal nomination from the Committee Chair a lament that politics plays such a big part in nominations now the bottom line is Justice Ginsberg when asked abou