I interviewed Judge Frederic Block, a federal judge in Brooklyn since 1994, about his improbable rise from Long Island solo practitioner to federal judge, the highlights of his almost 30-year judicial career, how judges should decide when it’s time to hang up their robes (he turns 89 this June), his views on the current direction of the Supreme Court, and what he REALLY thinks of former president Trump’s judicial appointees.

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