Willingness to accept expert declarations that fail the Bellesiles Test (do the cited aources actually exist? Do they say what the expert claims?) What are clearly ends-driven decisions.
Among the most disappointing was a district judge in Fresno who refused to hear expert testimony about the history of domestic violence disqualification in the colonial period, insisting that at Duke University Law she learned that women and children were chattel property and so such a question was irrelevant. Of course, the only women and children who were chattels were slaves. Free women and children had defined rights. Of course chattel alone defined mobile (non-real estate property). All chattels were property. "Chattel property" is redundant.
Oh yes. Another case that came before her in the courtroom was a guy who spoke no English and was seeking a more lenient sentence on a case involving possession of 50 pounds of meth. She gave him a more lenient sentence.
She may have learned this at Duke Law (an institution that leaves me increasingly unimpressed), but humility is an important trait in a judge. 5/27/26 CNBC:
A federal judge has been disciplined for having sex in their chambers with a high-ranking law enforcement officer within earshot of staff, attending a partisan political event and for lying to superior judges who investigated the claims, a disciplinary committee revealed.
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