Warren Burger's response when a deaf lawyer asked for real-time transcription (at the lawyer's expense) when arguing before the Court (in a case about disability access!).
I was talking to a world class official in a different sport, and this person told me what an incredible political and technical challenge it is to officiate the world championship in his thing - it's like being elected pope or something.
That gives me a sense of how devastating his must be.
Raffi Melkonian
Sam Bagenstos
In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...
Losing debates to Terry Bradshaw is exactly Rogan’s intellectual level.
Which was true, but... not very helpful to the defendant in that case.
Anyway, that's the closest I've gotten to a juror saying "your case is a crock of ..."
I had a trial once where a juror in voire dire was asked "have you ever heard of either party?" and thundered in response, "OH YES, PLAINTIFF IS THE GOLD STANDARD IN OUR INDUSTRY"
Heh.
Like you had to be supremely excellent as an official, and then navigate a tidal wave of crazy political problems and grudges. It's a career/life defining honor, is the way I understood it.
I’ve never been a prosecutor, but I can’t imagine that it’s common for a grand juror to announce that your case is a crock.
Grand Juror: {HONK}
AUSA: "What's that?"
Grand Juror: It's my "this case is a crock" horn.
Joe Rogan is losing vaccine debates to Terry Bradshaw, who can barely formulate a sentence.
