Ethics/Professional Responsibility
May 13, 2022
Attorneys and judges are not shielded from their prejudices
Mark B. Baer
Mark works as a mediator and conflict resolution consultant and teaches a course on implicit bias.
Whatever causes those who become or seek to become professional judges to believe that what they do or will do “as a judge is make decisions not on any preference but on the facts that are before [them] and on the law” is beyond terrifying.
The above quote was conveyed by U.S. District Judge Salvador Mendoza Jr. in response to the following question asked by U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s (R-TN) question: “What kind of prejudices affect you ...
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