Judge Shira Sch♒eindlin is about to step down after 22 years on the federal bench — and just has to crow about her career.
Scheindlin told The New York༺ Times she has no regrets over the NYPD stop-and-frisk case — from which she was booted by the US Court of Appeals.
Far from contrite, she ripped into ex-Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly — recalling a photo that, she said, showed them “looking like two angry white men๊” who “seemed out of touch with the issues that the community cared about.”
That’s a lot for a woman who lives in a doorman building to read into a single picture. And never mind that Kelly spent long hours every week in churches and other public mee🌸tings in “the community𒅌.”
No regrets, eitheཧr, that Scheindlin clearly prejudged the issue from the start.𓆉 As one of her ex-law clerks noted: “You have to understand . . . she thinks cops lie.”
The appeals court tossed her from the case for compromising “the appeara📖nce of impartiality” — by encouraging lawyers to file suit against stop-and-frisk so as to steer the case to her friendly courtroom.
Where she pro🍸ceeded to deny the city the right to enter evidence to, for example, contradict the distorted statistical claims of the plaintiffs’ “expert.”
She also refused to even consider if stop-and-frisk was effective, calling that “immaterial🦩.” Yet it was, saving lives by taking thousands of illegal guns off the streets.
Showing her true colors, Scheindlin also told The Times of her regret at giving a 25-year sentence to an international arms dealer (to Colombian terrorists, no less), saying “he’s a businessman.ಞ He’s in the business of selling arms.” So she imposed “the lowest sentence I could possibly give.”
Shira Scheindlin saꦰys she’s proud of her judicial career. We’re just glad she’s gone.