Rittenhouse Trial

[Sympthsical]

35. "deep emotional attachment to Kyle"

This is a characterization created out of whole cloth to fit a narrative.

The judge has some good parts and bad parts. I really wish we saw less of his personality. Also, shut that damn phone off.

But the fabrication of story lines and "obvious truths we just know - no evidence required!" is depressing as hell.

After the prosecution lied in their opening, violated the Fifth Amendment, and then tried to sneak in banned evidence, the judge had every right to dismiss the trial with prejudice. If he had done it, he would have been wholly within his legal rights. If it had happened, after that behavior, I don't think I would've faulted him. They're egregious constitutional violations.

He hasn't. Every indication he's made has been that he'd rather a jury make decisions about things.

The fact that the arguments against him require made up fantasies of this judge's rich inner life is evidence enough that many of the arguments about him aren't particularly good ones.

I've said it before, but it bears repeating. When you have the facts, you argue the facts. When you have the law, you argue the law. When all you have is the narrative, you argue the narrative. And unlike facts, evidence, and law, narratives have no requirement that they be true.