While
judges
should
get
a
lot
of
leeway
when
it
comes
to
their
courtrooms,
there
should
also
be
limits.
Things
like
play
handcuffing
children
to
prove
a
point
or
actually
handcuffing
children
over
fake
laws
are
at
the
top
of
my
“shit
judges
shouldn’t
be
doing
in
their
own
courtrooms”
list,
but
that
list
is
due
for
an
update.
Law.com
has
coverage
on
the
“order”
Justice
Naita
Semaj
has
been
bringing
to
her
court:
A
Bronx
jurist
agreed
to
be
censured,
admitting
she
unjustifiably
ejected
three
assistant
district
attorneys
from
her
courtroom,
and
was
impatient
and
discourteous
to
prosecutors,
often
reacting
with
sarcasm
during
a
13-month
span,
a
judicial
watchdog
said
Tuesday.The
New
York
State
Commission
on
Judicial
Conduct’s
10-0
decision
that
state
Supreme
Court
Justice
Naita
Semaj
should
be
censured
said
the
six-year
jurist
acknowledged
she
violated
misconduct
rules
on
numerous
occasions
and
demonstrated
at
least
the
appearance
of
bias.
The
short
end
of
the
story
is
that
even
judges
shouldn’t
flippantly
kick
DAs
from
their
courtroom
or
insinuate
that
an
ADA
could
get
some
extra
leeway
with
her
male
supervisors
because
she
was
pregnant.
Sometimes
the
time
and
place
really
is
never
and
nowhere.
While
this
is
far
from
the
first
time
that
complaints
against
Justice
Semaj
have
led
to
her
behavior
being
under
review
(Semaj
once
chided
a
victim’s
mother
for
not
being
on
time
for
the
arraignment
of
the
man
who
allegedly
killed
her
son),
the
commission
described
her
demeanor
as
“contrite”
and
“cooperative.”
Hopefully
this
will
be
the
push
she
needed
to
act
in
a
manner
befitting
a
judge.
Bronx
Judge
Is
Censured
Over
Unwarranted
Ejections
and
‘Unseemly’
Criticism
of
Prosecutors
[Law.com]
Chris
Williams
became
a
social
media
manager
and
assistant
editor
for
Above
the
Law
in
June
2021.
Prior
to
joining
the
staff,
he
moonlighted
as
a
minor
Memelord™
in
the
Facebook
group Law
School
Memes
for
Edgy
T14s
.
He
endured
Missouri
long
enough
to
graduate
from
Washington
University
in
St.
Louis
School
of
Law.
He
is
a
former
boatbuilder
who
is
learning
to
swim, is
interested
in
critical
race
theory,
philosophy,
and
humor,
and
has
a
love
for
cycling
that
occasionally
annoys
his
peers.
You
can
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