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A small one, we humbly submit. | A small one, we humbly submit. | ||
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The tide may be ebbing on the era of continuing professional education, but activist courts are always open to finding novel uses for it. | The tide may be ebbing on the golden era of continuing professional education, but activist courts are always open to finding novel uses for it. | ||
None more creative than that found by District Judge Linda Parker, who ordered Republican Party attorneys to undergo it a sanction for “a historic and profound abuse of the judicial process” when their vexatious claims of electoral fraud during the 2020 presidential election came before her court. | None more creative than that found by District Judge Linda Parker, who recently ordered Republican Party attorneys to undergo it a sanction for “a historic and profound abuse of the judicial process” when their vexatious claims of electoral fraud during the 2020 presidential election came before her court.<ref>[https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.350905/gov.uscourts.mied.350905.172.0_3.pdf ''King v. Whitmer judgment transcript]</ref> | ||
It is interesting to contemplate the theory of justice that drove Judge Parker’s decision. It can hardly be regarded as restorative or distributive in nature, nor corrective — it axiomatic that one leaves a CPD session no wiser than when one entered it — so we conclude it was motivated by the desire to mete out ''punishment''. | It is interesting to contemplate the theory of justice that drove Judge Parker’s decision. It can hardly be regarded as restorative or distributive in nature, nor corrective — it axiomatic that one leaves a CPD session no wiser than when one entered it — so we conclude it was motivated by the desire to mete out ''punishment''. | ||
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