Jed Saul Rakoff (born August 1, 1943) is a United States District Judge on senior status for the Southern District of New York. Read full biography of Jed S. Rakoff →
If you prosecute a CEO or other senior executive and send him or her to jail for committing a crime, the deterrent effect in my view vastly outweighs... →
In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the... →
An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous. If its deployment does not rest on... →
I don't have any respect for judges who arrive at the result first, and then try to figure out some way they can bend the law to reach their... →
If, in the name of combating terrorism, we so restrict our own freedom, have we not thereby lost part of the very battle we seek to win?
I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.
Judges have to be neutral, but they don't have to be eunuchs.
The price of being a nice guy is too high - much too high - in terms of the system of justice.
I admired Truman, among many other things, because he integrated the Army. I admired JFK because the very first civil rights legislation was passed... →
I have huge respect for Preet Bharara, a great U.S. Attorney by any measure. But even great men can make mistakes.
It's very hard to uphold individual liberty when the person you're representing is often a crook.
Everything needs to be public. The legitimacy of the courts comes from the fact that they reason openly, on the record, based on facts.
I have a past of making a fool of myself.
Jed Saul Rakoff (born August 1, 1943) is a United States District Judge on senior status for the Southern District of New York.