Series of hearings on the state of the federal judiciary in the 21st century. This hearing we will investigate ideas for promoting ethics, accountability, and transparency in the federal courts. We focus on these ideas and our first hearing on the judiciary because they flow from two foundational principles of due process. First, that no one can be a judge in his own case. Second, to quote former Supreme Court Justice Felix frankfurter, justice must satisfy the appearance of justice. Both rules embody the understanding that the constitutions implicit promise of equal justice under law depends on at least two things that our court must be fair, independent and impartial and that we must also believe that our courts are fair, independent, and impartial. Justice must satisfy the appearance of justice. It might take a second but we intuitively understand that. It means that as the Supreme Court recently explained, both the appearance and reality of impartial justice are necessary to the pu
Judge amul thapar, who sits the u. S. Court of appeals for the sixth circuit. His new book, his first book, is titled the peoples Justice Clarence thomas and the constant fictional stories that define him. Judge departure, thanks for joining us. John thank you for having me. So lets start out with why you decided to write about justice in particular. There are several members of the court that espouse originalism and theyre jurists, prudence. Why Justice Thomas . John, i originally trying to just in originalism. So my goal was to write in excess possible interesting originalism book is in is you know as an author is someone who writes a lot you often throw out your first draft and what i discover in that in drafting i kept coming back to justice. I thought his brand of originalism called the original public, meaning originalism, was one where he consistently his entire career laid out what i was an original a purely vision of the constant tution and the laws that govern us. And so in d
Judge amul thapar, who sits the u. S. Court of appeals for the sixth circuit. His new book, his first book, is titled the peoples Justice Clarence thomas and the constant fictional stories that define him. Judge departure, thanks for joining us. John thank you for having me. So lets start out with why you decided to write about justice in particular. There are several members of the court that espouse originalism and theyre jurists, prudence. Why Justice Thomas . John, i originally trying to just in originalism. So my goal was to write in excess possible interesting originalism book is in is you know as an author is someone who writes a lot you often throw out your first draft and what i discover in that in drafting i kept coming back to justice. I thought his brand of originalism called the original public, meaning originalism, was one where he consistently his entire career laid out what i was an original a purely vision of the constant tution and the laws that govern us. And so in d
Im pleased to be speaking with judge amul thapar, who sits the u. S. Court of appeals for the sixth circuit. His new book, his first book, is titled the peoples Justice Clarence thomas and the constant fictional stories that define him. Judge departure, thanks for joining us. John thank you for having me. So lets start out with why you decided to write about justice in particular. There are several members of the court that espouse originalism and theyre jurists, prudence. Why Justice Thomas . John, i originally trying to just in originalism. So my goal was to write in excess possible interesting originalism book is in is you know as an author is someone who writes a lot you often throw out your first draft and what i discover in that in drafting i kept coming back to justice. I thought his brand of originalism called the original public, meaning originalism, was one where he consistently his entire career laid out what i was an original a purely vision of the constant tution and the l
Im pleased to be speaking with judge amul thapar, who sits the u. S. Court of appeals for the sixth circuit. His new book, his first book, is titled the peoples Justice Clarence thomas and the constant fictional stories that define him. Judge departure, thanks for joining us. John thank you for having me. So lets start out with why you decided to write about justice in particular. There are several members of the court that espouse originalism and theyre jurists, prudence. Why Justice Thomas . John, i originally trying to just in originalism. So my goal was to write in excess possible interesting originalism book is in is you know as an author is someone who writes a lot you often throw out your first draft and what i discover in that in drafting i kept coming back to justice. I thought his brand of originalism called the original public, meaning originalism, was one where he consistently his entire career laid out what i was an original a purely vision of the constant tution and the l