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Nancy Gertner
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Justices’ Ethics Statement No Balm For Court Critics
April 27, 2023
U.S. Supreme Court justices took the rare step on Tuesday of acknowledging the growing drumbeat of criticism about its ethical guidelines, but ethics experts say…
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An op-ed by Nancy Gertner: In November 2018, when then-president Donald Trump challenged a federal judge’s impartiality by calling him an “Obama judge,” Supreme Court…
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Where the legal battle over Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence stands a decade after the Marathon bombing
April 17, 2023
As Boston marks 10 years since the city’s deadliest terrorist attack, the legal battle drags on in federal court to determine the fate of the…
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‘Abortionists.’ ‘Unborn human.’ Legal experts blast ‘incendiary’ rhetoric of Texas ruling on abortion pill.
April 11, 2023
An unprecedented preliminary ruling by a federal judge in Texas invalidating the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone signals a new…
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Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire
April 6, 2023
IN LATE JUNE 2019, right after the U.S. Supreme Court released its final opinion of the term, Justice Clarence Thomas boarded a large private jet…
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When the U.S. Senate confirmed Indiana federal judge Matthew P. Brookman last week, he became just the third of President Joe Biden’s judicial picks to…
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Time for Supreme Court to adopt ethics rules?
March 30, 2023
The policymaking body of the federal courts recently issued revised rules requiring all judges to offer a fuller accounting of meals, trips, and gifts they…
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Time for Supreme Court to adopt ethics rules?
March 30, 2023
Retired federal judge Nancy Gertner says a lack of transparency and recent incidents involving justices, spouses, and activists have tarnished the Court's public standing.
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Boston Public Radio full show: March 2, 2023
March 3, 2023
Today on Boston Public Radio, live from the Boston Public Library: We opened the phone lines to hear from listeners about the future of automation…
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Boston Public Radio Full Show: Feb. 13, 2023
February 14, 2023
Today on Boston Public Radio: We started the show with listener reactions to the U.S. military shooting down multiple unidentified objects in North American airspace.
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Boston Public Radio full show: Jan. 27, 2023
January 30, 2023
Hon. Nancy Gertner discussed the Memphis police killing of Tyre Nichols, reports of discord among the Supreme Court justices and questions of whether there ought…
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Retired federal judge Nancy Gertner asks whether ‘it is fair to use the criminal legal system’ to assess the actor’s responsibility.
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Was Alec Baldwin reckless?
January 23, 2023
“I didn’t know the gun was loaded” was Miss Effie’s “alibi” in the hit song released by the Andrews Sisters in 1949. But is it…
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Can you be charged for murder if there’s no body? Brian Walshe Googled it, police say.
January 20, 2023
In the days after his wife disappeared, Brian Walshe went on several Google searches, authorities say — asking questions about disposing of dead bodies, cleaning…
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Boston Marathon bomber is appealing his death sentence again
January 11, 2023
It’s nice to see that Ben Affleck is finally getting paid for all the publicity he gives Dunkin’. Before you head out in search of…
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What Went Unsaid in the Chief Justice’s Report on the Judiciary
January 9, 2023
An op-ed co-written by Nancy Gertner: John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, recently filed his 2022 “year-end report on the federal judiciary.”…
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There’s another side to the story on judge stats
January 5, 2023
An article by Nancy Gertner: The Nov. 28 issue of Lawyers Weekly reported on a U.S. District Court judge who had considerably more motions pending…
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‘Architect’ of Varsity Blues scam faces sentencing in Boston
January 4, 2023
A federal judge in Boston on Wednesday will sentence the so-called “architect“ of the college admissions scheme that investigators dubbed Varsity Blues and that —…