Alito

Re: Uncle Sam

His recent behavior set off a teeny alarm in my lower brain stem. There's a L&O episode that bears directly on Uncle Sam's corruption. The DAs and the trial judge are at loggerheads for most of the episode, which culminates with the DAs, defendant's lawyer, trial judge, and Chief Administrative Judge meeting to hash out the conflict in the latter's office. It ends, more or less, with this exchange:

Judge Nathan Marks : You expect me to sit there like a lump, while he springs surprise witnesses? Half-baked appeals, revised indictments? To turn my courtroom inside out - to win a case he should have lost the first time! Chief Administrative Judge : Nathan - you're not supposed to care who wins, remember?

Ah, yes. Impartial jurisprudence.