Are there blind judges? Like legal judges who are visually impaired?
from sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz to nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca on 17 Nov 00:00
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Pat_Riot@lemmy.today on 17 Nov 00:20 next collapse

Alice’s Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie features a verse about a blind judge. There’s bound to be a few in real life.

jrandomhacker@beehaw.org on 17 Nov 05:17 collapse

The story in Alice’s Restaurant is (mostly) a true story, and Judge James Hannon was a real person who was really blind. He played himself in the movie version of Alice’s Restaurant (as did Officer Obie, under the logic that it’d better for him to make fun of himself than for someone else to do it)

Pat_Riot@lemmy.today on 17 Nov 11:17 collapse

That’s awesome! I didn’t even know about the movie. Gonna have to look that up.

finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 17 Nov 00:22 next collapse

Why couldn’t a blind person serve as a judge?

sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz on 17 Nov 00:23 collapse

No reason, I’d like to hear about one who is known. Most judges wear glasses…

finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 17 Nov 00:25 collapse

This was one of the first results from google: Why Disability Diversity Is Important in the Judiciary

The American Bar Association governs licensure for lawyers in the US.

zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev on 17 Nov 04:44 collapse

Justice is blind. Justices can be as well. lawecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1…

sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz on 17 Nov 04:46 collapse

As it and they should be. Lemony Snickets 12th Book (Penultimate Peril) sealed it for me