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"Symbols... Of Subtle Oppression": Virginia Judge Orders Removal Of Portraits Of White Judges

Virginia Judge Won't Try Black Man in Courtroom Lined With White Portraits

Virginia Judge Won’t Try Black Man in Courtroom Lined With White Portraits David Bernhard, a circuit court judge, wrote in his decision that the display of portraits of white judges “is based on a non-racial principle, yet yields a racial result.” Portraits of judges hanging in a courtroom of the Fairfax Circuit Court in 2015.Credit.Pool by Jahi Chikwendiu Published Jan. 1, 2021Updated Jan. 2, 2021 When a Black man appears in a Virginia courtroom this month to stand trial on charges of eluding the police, assaulting an officer and other crimes, he will face a scene that defendants in that room have not experienced in decades: The portraits of white judges will no longer line the walls.

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У США портрети колишніх суддів визнали тиском на підсудного

Time to rename the J. Edgar Hoover Building

ANALYSIS/OPINION: The latest example of the cancel culture is a Virginia judge’s ruling that a Black defendant cannot get a fair trial in a courtroom decorated overwhelmingly with portraits of White judges. Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge David Bernhard ordered that the paintings be removed for the upcoming trial of a man charged with assaulting a police officer and other crimes. As if the defendant is unaware that the vast majority of Americans are White, the judge said in an opinion, “The court is concerned the portraits may serve as unintended but implicit symbols that suggest the courtroom may be a place historically administered by whites for whites, and that thus others are of a lesser standing in the dispensing of justice.”