{"id":115511,"date":"2017-09-01T23:58:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T03:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=115511"},"modified":"2025-01-10T20:28:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T01:28:56","slug":"richard-posner-retiring-from-appeals-court-bench-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/01\/richard-posner-retiring-from-appeals-court-bench-in-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Posner retiring from appeals court bench in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CHICAGO — U.S. Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner, whose acerbic wit and legal opinions made him a legend in legal circles, announced Friday that he is retiring.<\/p>\n

Posner, 78, is stepping down after more than three decades on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago.<\/p>\n

Posner was appointed to the court by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, and will leave the bench Saturday. He said in a statement that he has written more than 3,300 opinions during his career and is \u201cproud to have promoted a pragmatic approach to judging.\u201d He added that \u201cjudicial opinions should be easy to understand and that judges should focus on the right and wrong in every case.<\/p>\n

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Born in New York, Posner earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Yale University in 1959. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1962.<\/p>\n

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Posner clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr. and was an assistant to U.S. Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall before Marshall became a Supreme Court justice.<\/p>\n

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Posner has been an outspoken critic of the current state of the nation’s high court, calling it \u201chighly politicized.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it’s reached a real nadir,\u201d Posner said in a talk at a Chicago book store last year. \u201cProbably only a couple of the justices, (Stephen) Breyer and (Ruth Bader) Ginsburg, are qualified. They’re OK, they’re not great.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was equally free with his opinions issued from the bench. In one, annoyed with a lawyer who’d ducked one of his questions, Posner included a picture of a man with his head buried in the ground.<\/p>\n

Seventh Circuit Chief Judge Diane Wood said in a statement Friday that Posner is one of the world’s leading public intellectuals.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis opinions have had an impact around the world,\u201d Wood said. \u201cHe has produced an unparalleled body of scholarship — books, articles and public commentary — covering virtually every legal topic that can be imagined.\u201d<\/p>\n

Posner is also on the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School. He said he looks forward to continuing to teach and publish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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