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The Counsel

Note from Elie: A Tale of Two Judges

The Counsel

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics

4.7861 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Note From Elie is part of the free weekly CAFE Brief newsletter. Audio recordings of Elie’s Note are part of the CAFE Insider subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hey everyone, Ellie here wishing you another happy summer Friday. As always, the legal news piles up. As always, thank you for

0:39.1

tuning in. And as always, love to hear your feedback. So please send me any thoughts, questions,

0:44.0

or comments to Letters atcafe.com. Imagine you're a federal judge.

1:04.5

You've been around for a few years now, and while you're no longer the new kid on the

1:08.3

bench, you're certainly no graybeard.

1:10.5

Many of your colleagues are a generation or more older and more experienced than you.

1:15.0

But you're finding your way.

1:16.6

You've handled a few medium-profile cases.

1:19.1

You've had your ups and downs, and you're starting to get into the rhythm.

1:22.3

Hey, you got life tenure to figure it all out.

1:25.0

Every day, late in the afternoon, you get an automatically generated

1:27.9

email from the clerk listing the new criminal indictments that have been randomly wheeled out to you.

1:32.6

And you now know, by the way, that this terminology wheeled out is quite literal. In some districts,

1:37.4

there's an actual spinnable wheel, like one they'd use to draw bingo balls to assign judges randomly

1:42.8

to incoming cases. Most days, the case names and

1:45.8

numbers mean little to you yet, just an assortment of captions indicating people whose liberty

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