Abstract
“Well, you know what magistrates are. The lowest form of pond life. When a fellow hasn’t the brains and initiative to sell jellied eels, they make him a magistrate.”
– P.G. Wodehouse, “Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit” (1955)
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Reforming the system will be difficult and face resistance from many fronts. Moreover, activists will likely run into an even greater, institutional hurdle: The judges.
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