{"id":4496,"date":"2025-03-04T05:39:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T05:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/former-judges-question-judicial-silence-amid-partisan-attacks-on-judiciary\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T05:39:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T05:39:36","slug":"former-judges-question-judicial-silence-amid-partisan-attacks-on-judiciary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/former-judges-question-judicial-silence-amid-partisan-attacks-on-judiciary\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Judges Question Judicial Silence Amid Partisan Attacks on Judiciary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>In 1996, then-U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Chief Judge Jon Newman publicly condemned calls for the impeachment of U.S. District Judge Harold Baer Jr. over his ruling in a drug case in his Manhattan, New York, courtroom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>The attacks stemmed from Baer\u2019s decision that a suspect\u2019s flight from police didn\u2019t provide reasonable suspicion to search his car. After President Bill Clinton\u2019s press secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/1996\/03\/29\/judges-rip-baer-baiting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>said<\/u><\/a> the White House might pressure Baer to resign, Newman and three fellow chief judges issued a statement saying such impeachment efforts \u201cdo a grave disservice to the principle of an independent judiciary,\u201d according to Baer\u2019s New York Law Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/newyorklawjournal\/almID\/1202657002500\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>obituary<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1996, then-U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Chief Judge Jon Newman publicly condemned calls for the impeachment of U.S. District Judge Harold Baer Jr. over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2878,915,485,273,4914,1387,4913],"class_list":["post-4496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-attacks","tag-judges","tag-judicial","tag-judiciary","tag-partisan","tag-question","tag-silence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}