He wrote a good book about how judges think, and I really recommend reading it if you want to know how the actual system works. It's crazy how little weight appellate judges give to the facts when making a decision and how much everything else (politics, social status, what colleagues would think, etc) is really the driving force behind judgments.
He wrote a good book about how judges think, and I really recommend reading it if you want to know how the actual system works. It's crazy how little weight appellate judges give to the facts when making a decision and how much everything else (politics, social status, what colleagues would think, etc) is really the driving force behind judgments.