03/22/2022
Chief Justice Boggs (from the GA Supreme Court) at the Lawyer's Club CLE on professionalism just stated that lawyers should talk about judicial decisions in a way that instills confidence in the judicial system and not imply that judges make decisions on personal or public preferences.
I understand the benefits of doing this, but find it concerning that in light of judicially created doctrines (including but not limited to official immunity, judicial immunity, quasi-judicial immunity, qualified immunity, and sovereign immunity) that protect government officials (including judges and the various government departments many worked with on their way to being judges) from accountability and liability for hurting citizens, that lawyers should ever instill confidence in such specific doctrines or decisions.
Psychology shows why judges would create and support such doctrines, but it's vital that others work to get them changed, not convince the public that they are legitimate ideas in a nation that is supposed to be run "by the people, for the people".