{"id":124129,"date":"2025-06-25T09:03:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/25\/you-catch-more-judges-with-honey-than-with-vinegar\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T09:03:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:03:03","slug":"you-catch-more-judges-with-honey-than-with-vinegar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/25\/you-catch-more-judges-with-honey-than-with-vinegar\/","title":{"rendered":"You Catch More Judges With \u2018Honey\u2019 Than With Vinegar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Except those judges aren\u2019t going to like it when you catch them. Like the poor lawyer here <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/06\/lawyer-calls-judge-honey-during-oral-argument-and-you-can-feel-the-cringe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">who called a judge \u201choney\u201d during oral argument<\/a> and entered a spiral of no return. We also had a dramatic week at the Supreme Court, with Justice Gorsuch trying to start something with Justice Jackson and <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/06\/neil-gorsuch-starts-some-supreme-court-drama-ketanji-brown-jackson-ends-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Justice Jackson shutting it right down<\/a>, and Sam Alito using his concurrence to complain that the transgender care ban is an act of discrimination\u2026 and the he wants the Court to be more proud of it. And <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/06\/vault-100-rankings-the-most-prestigious-law-firms-in-america-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Vault put out its law firm prestige rankings<\/a>. Hopefully nothing went down immediately after their survey that radically changed how people perceive the firms!<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/06\/you-catch-more-judges-with-honey-than-with-vinegar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">You Catch More Judges With \u2018Honey\u2019 Than With Vinegar<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Except those judges aren\u2019t going to like it when you catch them. Like the poor lawyer here <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/06\/lawyer-calls-judge-honey-during-oral-argument-and-you-can-feel-the-cringe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">who called a judge \u201choney\u201d during oral argument<\/a> and entered a spiral of no return. We also had a dramatic week at the Supreme Court, with Justice Gorsuch trying to start something with Justice Jackson and <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/06\/neil-gorsuch-starts-some-supreme-court-drama-ketanji-brown-jackson-ends-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Justice Jackson shutting it right down<\/a>, and Sam Alito using his concurrence to complain that the transgender care ban is an act of discrimination\u2026 and the he wants the Court to be more proud of it. And <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/06\/vault-100-rankings-the-most-prestigious-law-firms-in-america-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Vault put out its law firm prestige rankings<\/a>. Hopefully nothing went down immediately after their survey that radically changed how people perceive the firms!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Except those judges aren\u2019t going to like it when you catch them. Like the poor lawyer here who called a judge \u201choney\u201d during oral argument and entered a spiral of no return. We also had a dramatic week at the Supreme Court, with Justice Gorsuch trying to start something with Justice Jackson and Justice Jackson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":124130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/honeybee-gavel-YGsQ2w.jpeg?fit=1732%2C1732&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}