Judges and Judiciary
Feb. 6, 2001
Judicial Power Outage
Power is like an egg white; it so easily slips through your fingers. For me, the attempt to make an egg white omelet brings home my lack of power and the indeterminate nature of reality. Separating the white from the yolk is like separating the truth from fiction in the Ashcroft confirmation hearings. No matter how hard I try, a little yolk always runs into my whites.
2nd Appellate District, Division 6
Arthur Gilbert
Presiding Justice 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 6
UC Berkeley School of Law, 1963
Arthur's previous columns are available on gilbertsubmits.blogspot.com.
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Power is like an egg white; it so easily slips through your fingers. For me, the attempt to make an egg white omelet brings home my lack of power and the indeterminate nature of reality. Separating the white from the yolk is like separating the truth from fiction in the Ashcroft confirmation hearings. No matter how hard I try, a little yolk always runs into my whites.
The capricious nature of power is a sobering truth t...
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