Harvard Anti-Trumper Attacks Manafort Judge In WaPo Op-Ed

Via Billy

Retired federal judge-turned-professor contradicts years of own advocacy, risking Manafort deliberation integrity  Harvard Law School Professor and retired federal judge Nancy Gertner took to the Washington Post op ed-page on Thursday to attack current Federal Judge T.S. Ellis III, claiming that he has been biased in favor of the defense while presiding over the Manafort trial.

Gertner’s op-ed going after Judge Ellis is likely startling and baffling to anyone familiar with her career, especially given its timing and where it was printed, coming as it did while the jury is deliberating on the Manafort case and being published in a paper which is distributed in their area where the jurors are especially likely to see it and to be influenced by it, possibly tilting the verdict in favor of the prosecution. Now, it’s not too often the folks at the Washington Post are able to shock me anymore, especially with their op-ed page. Nor am I easily stunned when the whims of partisan politics cause those who I previously considered to be unimpeachable to betray their once-vaulted ideals.