{"id":143101,"date":"2026-02-01T17:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/01\/whole-new-meaning-to-judicial-restraint-see-generally\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T17:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:30:26","slug":"whole-new-meaning-to-judicial-restraint-see-generally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/01\/whole-new-meaning-to-judicial-restraint-see-generally\/","title":{"rendered":"Whole New Meaning To Judicial Restraint \u2014 See Generally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Judge Learns Handcuffing Lawyers Is Frowned Upon:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/texas-judge-charged-with-unlawful-restraint-for-handcuffing-attorney-during-hearing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas judge charged after allegedly cuffing an attorney mid-hearing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Disbar Them All:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/disbar-them-all-the-only-accountability-left-for-trumps-lawyers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lawyers have to come together as a profession and make sure the Trump administration\u2019s lawyers never practice again.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Judge Skeptical That Trump Can Unilaterally Blow Up Historic Buildings:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/judge-gives-trumps-of-course-i-can-bulldoze-the-east-wing-if-i-wanna-argument-the-side-eye-it-deserves\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The East Wing is gone, but the legal fight continues.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tip For Professor Richard Epstein\u2026 Shutting Up Is Still Free:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/torts-professor-who-botched-covid-prediction-suddenly-expert-on-birthright-citizenship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law professor who faceplanted on COVID insists now declares he\u2019s figured out that everyone has been wrong about the Fourteenth Amendment for a century or so. He is incorrect<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Law School Merger Mania:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/regional-law-school-explores-long-distance-merger\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Regional institution is exploring long-distance merger<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stroock Calls It After 150 Years:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/the-end-of-an-era-stroock-dissolves-after-nearly-150-years\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The storied firm dissolves, reminding everyone that nothing is forever<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Law Firm Jet Crash Leaves No Survivors:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/firm-owned-plane-crash-leaves-no-survivors-founders-wife-an-attorney-among-deceased\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tragically, a firm-owned plane went down with no survivors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/02\/whole-new-meaning-to-judicial-restraint-see-generally\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Whole New Meaning To Judicial Restraint \u2014 See Generally<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Judge Learns Handcuffing Lawyers Is Frowned Upon:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/texas-judge-charged-with-unlawful-restraint-for-handcuffing-attorney-during-hearing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas judge charged after allegedly cuffing an attorney mid-hearing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Disbar Them All:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/disbar-them-all-the-only-accountability-left-for-trumps-lawyers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lawyers have to come together as a profession and make sure the Trump administration\u2019s lawyers never practice again.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Judge Skeptical That Trump Can Unilaterally Blow Up Historic Buildings:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/judge-gives-trumps-of-course-i-can-bulldoze-the-east-wing-if-i-wanna-argument-the-side-eye-it-deserves\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The East Wing is gone, but the legal fight continues.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tip For Professor Richard Epstein\u2026 Shutting Up Is Still Free:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/torts-professor-who-botched-covid-prediction-suddenly-expert-on-birthright-citizenship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law professor who faceplanted on COVID insists now declares he\u2019s figured out that everyone has been wrong about the Fourteenth Amendment for a century or so. He is incorrect<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Law School Merger Mania:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/regional-law-school-explores-long-distance-merger\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Regional institution is exploring long-distance merger<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stroock Calls It After 150 Years:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/the-end-of-an-era-stroock-dissolves-after-nearly-150-years\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The storied firm dissolves, reminding everyone that nothing is forever<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Law Firm Jet Crash Leaves No Survivors:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/firm-owned-plane-crash-leaves-no-survivors-founders-wife-an-attorney-among-deceased\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tragically, a firm-owned plane went down with no survivors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/02\/whole-new-meaning-to-judicial-restraint-see-generally\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Whole New Meaning To Judicial Restraint \u2014 See Generally<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Learns Handcuffing Lawyers Is Frowned Upon: Texas judge charged after allegedly cuffing an attorney mid-hearing. Disbar Them All: Lawyers have to come together as a profession and make sure the Trump administration\u2019s lawyers never practice again. Judge Skeptical That Trump Can Unilaterally Blow Up Historic Buildings: The East Wing is gone, but the legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":143102,"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-143101","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\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-1454400733-9bV1ub.jpg?fit=724%2C483&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143101","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=143101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}