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BREAKING: Judge who allowed FBI to search Washington Post reporter’s home rips into Justice Department for not informing him of the law that explicitly bars raids of reporters

cnn.comJudge who allowed FBI to search Washington Post reporter’s home rips into Justice Department | CNN PoliticsA federal judge ripped into the Justice Department on Friday for failing to inform him of the applicability of a law intended to protect journalists from government searches and seizures when it asked...

David Pick

@davidmichaelpick.net

21 Feb

Interesting (new to me) thing about US law. I suppose it makes sense in a system where many judges are elected but where prosecutors are expected to be professionals. In the UK, where judges are professionals, there's a legal fiction in court that the judge knows all the law. /

David Pick

@davidmichaelpick.net

A barrister arguing with the judge doesn't say "you're wrong", they have to say "may I remind you that in <such-and-such> a case it was ruled that" or some similar language.

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@baseballmad.bsky.social

8 Mar

same here, the imaginable consequences of telling a judge "you're wrong" is the stuff of nightmares for US lawyers with any functioning brain cells generally you state the law in your motions practice in the case, and then if needed, do exactly as you've described here during oral argument in court