THE ROBING ROOM

Judge Weinstein is an institution. At - what -- 85? he's still extraordinarily vigorous. Absolutely cuts through the B.S. Voluntarily took 500 habeas petitions a couple of years ago to stem the backlog and put together a staff to address them all in a year. Extremely innovative. Can take what would be a 100 page jury instruction before any other judge and cut it to 20 pages. Authors the principal treatise on federal evidence and ignores most of it. Defintely not into extended argument. A touch of arrogance. Not likely to be another like him.