Sarah Palin leaves the Manhattan Federal Courthouse after the judge announced a ruling that Palin could not prove that The New York Times defamed her in a 2017 editorial that wrongly linked her political action committee to a mass shooting in Arizona before the Jury had finished deliberating on February 14, 2022. Photo: Ryland West/ALM
The Book of Ruth (1:1) mercurially, maybe longingly, refers to a time “when judges judged.” Today’s judges judge, some more so than others.
When one asks the cognoscenti to name the finest trial judges in America, far more often than not U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff in Manhattan is among them. And, unquestionably, it is because he never shies from the task—using his intelligence and experience to reach a result, often with intuitive and imaginative skill.
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