Judge Judy is ready to hang up her robe. Judy Sheindlin, perhaps America’s most beloved member of the judiciary, announced that her popular daytime show will be ending its run after the 25th season which will air in 2020-2021. “Well, I’ve had a 25-year-long marriage with CBS, and it’s been successful,” she told Ellen DeGeneres.…
New Jersey Superior Court Judge John F. Russo Jr. is facing suspension after he reportedly asked a woman seeking a restraining order if she tried to prevent her alleged sexual assault by closing her legs. According to The New York Times, an advisory committee found that the displayed behavior that was “not only discourteous and…
Last week’s primary elections in eight states were closely watched, in part to see whether the so-called Blue Wave would materialize for November’s midterms. But in California eyes were also on a special inclusion to the ballot, one nearly two years in the making. It was the recall effort to remove Judge Aaron Persky from…
A federal judge in New York ruled Wednesday that Donald Trump is in violation of the Constitution when he blocks users on Twitter, as he so often does. In making her ruling, Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald wrote that “no government official—including the President—is above the law, and all government officials are presumed to follow the…
“Leave your pain here and go out and do your magnificent things.” If you had asked me—a psychiatrist—who was most likely to say this to a survivor of sexual abuse, I would have said one of my mental health colleagues. But these were the words of a judge. Specifically, Judge Rosemarie Aquilina, who used her…
Former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar has been sentenced to up to 175 years in prison. On Wednesday Judge Rosemarie Aquilina who has been presiding over the entirety of the Nassar hearing since its inception, made the announcement in a Lansing, Michigan, court on Wednesday after hearing statements from more than 150 women and girls…