
Judge Victoria Pratt’s “The Power of Dignity”
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
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How I Become a Judge
My mother had a beauty salon in the city of norgan as always ironicus, four blocks away from where i became the chief judge. And so learning how to advocate for people at an early age. But my parents made sure, and maybe because they were treated with such little dignity, insisted, in short, that their children behaved in a different way. So when i got on the bench, it just made sense to me that i would see the humanity in people,. That i would be engaged in human centred justice. I knew the system was broken, but i committed myself that i was going to insure that everybody who came before me got justice," she said.
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