The market is up slightly in early trading. Yesterday looked like it was going to be a pretty big selloff, but the market again found its footing late in the day and closed down only slightly on the session.
For less encouraging news about state judiciaries, we can turn to the state of Texas, where a man was sentenced to death in a trail in which the prosecutor and presiding judge were having an affair. You don’t have to be a legal scholar to see the, ah, rather obvious due process problems with a trail in which the state’s representative is literally having sexual relations with the allegedly neutral arbiter, and indeed even the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals can’t quite bring itself to deny it. Rather, it falls back on the tool so beloved by reactionary jurists everywhere, the arbitrary procedural Catch-22: