Michael Boudin, a jurist who came of age amid the ferment of left-wing activism as the son of a towering civil liberties lawyer and the brother of a Weather Underground radical, but who forged his own ...
Because judges’ lives are rarely “enlivened by military battles, campaign rallies, cabinet meetings, or diplomatic crises,” an entire career on the bench may often be reduced “to a vote on a case and ...
His rulings on the U.S. bench might have rankled his father, a civil liberties lawyer; his uncle, a muckraking journalist; and his sister, an imprisoned radical. By Adam Nossiter Michael Boudin, a ...