It still chokes me up a little when I remember the moment when Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney swore me in, my right hand raised, as a Massachusetts Superior Court judge, saying, “Do you promise that you will defend and support the United States Constitution and the Massachusetts Constitution, so help you, God?” This oath choked me up every time I took it over the last 22 years. The Trump judges must have taken the same oath, yet some have lost their way. The Trump cases are “political” cases, but I don’t use the word “political” here in a negative way. I only mean that these cases have pro…
