Benchslaps

This Judge Is Master Of The Courtroom, You Are Not

Know your place.

scary angry judgeI get to interrupt you. I’m wearing a black robe. You’re not wearing a black robe. You don’t get to interrupt me.

— D.C. Circuit Judge David Sentelle, to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau attorney Lawrence DeMille-Wagman. Wagman was in front of the judge in defense of the CFPB’s subpoena into for-profit colleges. Sentelle noted of the district court judge (whose decision the CFPB is appealing), “Right now, he’s ahead.”