This section is news, columns and ideas about judges--how we elect or appoint them, judicial opinions, and judicial clerkships. Judges are oracles of the law in our American Democratic System,  says Ritter, oracles being issuers of authoritative rules. His first essay on judges is a reprint of an article he wrote in the Yale Daily News about his law school class visit to and interviews with the U.S. Supreme Court.

Ritter also includes ideas about juries because the jury system saves us from judges, at least at the trial level. Judges are hardened to the same old testimony from witnesses and pleas from lawyers, while juries listen wide-eyed for their first time.

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