A Day at the Coronavirus Supermarket That Communist Bernie Would Have Loved
Empty shelves that will leave him crying from joy.
by Dov Fischer
March 16, 2020, 12:04 AM
Have you ever had an experience alone that you wished you could share with someone? For example, that happened to me on the coldest day ever in Cincinnati during the Great Blizzard of 1994. I was clerking that year for the most brilliant and gifted judge in the United States federal courts, the Hon. Danny J. Boggs of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and it was my turn to be in Cincinnati for the week’s appellate panels.
Part One — Some Rambling (So Skip to Part Two If It Bores You)
Judge Boggs’s chambers are based in Louisville, Kentucky. I spent my year there and fell in love with the city and the state. By year’s end, I had visited every square inch of Kentucky and had become so enamored of it that the governor, Brereton Jones (a great Kentucky name!) conferred upon me membership in the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels (H.O.K.C.). I cherish that membership. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals covers four states: Kentucky, Tennessee (and, as a Kentucky Colonel, I emphasize that Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey is not Kentucky bourbon!), Michigan, and Ohio. That federal circuit handles appeals ranging from issues pertaining to factories, manufacturing, and unions to horses, tobacco, and whiskey. But mostly, like all the federal circuit courts, the Sixth finds itself dealing with the other weighty legal issues that engage the American jurisprudential consciousness: the justice and Constitutionality of affirmative action and quotas, fair housing and employment, free speech, immigration, religious liberties, immigration, privacy rights, the preciousness of life at conception versus the right to murder fetuses, and so on. Criminal appeals take up a large part of the docket because federal appeals are quite expensive, and a party who has lost at trial needs to think long and hard before spending a small fortune on an appeal that a jury already has decided, in the first instance, is a loser. By contrast, it is a freebie on the tab of the taxpayers to appeal from a criminal conviction, so those all get appealed.
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