When Judges Have Food Fights With Each Other

The rule of law fares badly. "A Nevada federal district judge named Robert Jones who delayed issuing a ruling until immediately before Nevada would have to issue ballots, in what looked like an attempt to prevent Nevada from having time to appeal his decision. [...] The 9th Circuit granted a stay, and Judge Stephen Reinhardt issued a concurrence laying out the timeline and stating that Judge Jones’s 'dilatory tactics appear to serve no purpose other than to seek to prevent the state from taking an appeal of his decision before it must print the ballots.' Jones responded by accusing Reinhardt of breaking the rules, and each of them accused the other of 'assumption of power by one individual which is not acceptable in our judicial system.' "