The opportunity to applaud Judge Green as an example of strong
institutional leadership is too inviting to pass up. While this Blog spends far
too much energy chastising others in positions of governmental and
institutional leadership and pointing out their shortcomings, the system that
governs the application of the rule of law has, by contrast, been managed in a
way that exhibits intellectual depth, seriousness of purpose and unblemished integrity.
With the government in a mess, and some of our institutions
oblivious to their heightened obligations in the circumstance, it is reassuring
that our judicial system — though far from perfect — is a beacon to the country
and to the rest of the world. Judge
Green is surely one of the reasons such a claim is justified.
