A few years ago, in a small courthouse in Cincinnati, Ohio, something unprecedented and unthinkable happened — something that’s never happened before in all of recorded human history: A judge was sentenced to prison for committing a crime. Up until this moment, which took place in the summer of 2019, no judge had ever done anything illegal for any reason, in any context. You can go back to biblical times if you want to. No judge had ever gone to jail. And that makes sense, of course, because judges are the ones who adjudicate legal problems. So it would make no sense for a judge to cause a legal problem in the first place. That would just be completely backwards. It would be like a postal worker going postal, or a chiropractor breaking someone’s neck, or a firefighter deciding to commit arson. These are things that, by definition, are physically impossible.
And yet, in…
