No matter who the Plaintiff or the Defendant is, Judges must remain neutral and respect the process. It will help maintain a sense of fairness if judges can exercise a little more discipline in the process.

There is already too much mistrust in government. The judiciary system must at least uphold its fundamental duty to equal justice to all.

I’m not a Sarah Palin fan but it concerns me when Federal Judge Jed S. Rakoff publicly announces that he will dismiss Palin’s libel suit against New York Times BEFORE the jury has rendered its verdict.

Waiting and respecting the Jury’s decision would have been the disciplined route to take.

” A federal judge said Monday that he planned to dismiss Sarah Palin’s libel lawsuit against The New York Times, ruling that her legal team had failed to meet the extremely high legal standard required to prove that the newspaper defamed her when it published a 2017 editorial erroneously linking her political rhetoric to a mass shooting.

The jury was still deliberating behind closed doors in a Lower Manhattan courthouse, adding an unexpected and unusual twist in a case that is a major test of the First Amendment protections that journalists work under. Judge Jed S. Rakoff said he would allow the jurors to continue weighing the arguments by both sides. If they rule in favor of Ms. Palin, he will set aside their verdict and dismiss the case, he said.”