“Don’t Come—Your Sister’s Boyfriend Is a Judge,” My Dad Texted—Monday Morning, He Learned Who Really Was

confirmed to six weeks ago, after a nomination process so quiet and quick that it never made the news outside legal circles. The judgeship I’d earned after six years of federal public defense work that had taken me from the Bronx to the Second Circuit to the attention of senators who actually cared about protecting constitutional rights.

The judgeship continue reading …