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i’m digitizing some old notes while i wait for my car at the shop this morning & back in april, when a neoconfederate threw a pen in the direction of judge moore, leading to a contempt conviction, he said he’d “only ever held 3 or 4 people in contempt” in his time on the bench.
i think judge moore has only been a judge for... 6 years maybe? still, if he’s only held 3 or 4 people in contempt and i’ve personally witnessed two of those in the last 8 months, i wonder who the other one or two were?
going over my notes is such a strange experience. i transcribe everything i can, even facts i already know, recaps of court documents i already have, what the room feels like, the judge’s sighs & body language, to capture the entirety of the experience of a hearing.
i’ve hand written more notes in the past two years than my entire life up to that point, i’m sure of it.
like a lot of the work i do, i think this sits squarely at the intersection of my own personal obsession & a very real service to my community. these notebooks are probably the most complete record of the state’s reckoning with charlottesville’s summer of hate.
