Given the current ideological context, I can’t help believing that this is just virtue signaling by the judge so that when she sells out her principles later she’ll be able to point back to this speech and say, “see? I know what I’m doing now by making sure my political masters get the absolute bestest “justice” they can afford, because you can see that I said law-like things and justice-like things way back when...”
Agreed. That’s the first thing I thought of too