In 2013, I took the subway across the river into Brooklyn, where I called upon Judge Frederic Block (E.D.N.Y.) in chambers. At the time, Judge Block had just written a memoir, Disrobed: An Inside Look at the Life and Work of a Federal Trial Judge. I spent a delightful afternoon chatting with Judge Block about the book, his fascinating legal career, and his wide-ranging outside interests.

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How smart of our Founding Fathers for creating an independent federal judicial system devoid of political pressures. I want to personally thank Marbury, Madison, and all the others who had the wisdom and foresight to protect me and my federal judicial colleagues from attacks against us aimed at compromising our sworn oath to judge each case solely on the evidence and the law regardless of the consequences. If they were alive today, they would be patting themselves on the back for being so prescient.

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The I-Teams's Sarah Wallace speaks with Frederic Block about his book "Race to Judgement" and city's judicial system.

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Norm Goldman, the editor of BookPleasures.com, reviewed Race to Judgement.

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Brooklyn federal judge pays homage to the late, crusading DA Ken Thompson in novel ‘Race to Judgment’

A federal judge is going from law to lit in a ripped-from-the-headlines novel about Brooklyn’s wrongful convictions and its bare-knuckle politics.

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