Lin-Manuel Miranda and Benjamin Cardozo: "Pop Culture Prediction[] for 2022"

From PJ Grisar at the Forward (formerly The Jewish Daily Forward, indeed formerly exclusively in Yiddish), one of twenty-two:

Lin-Manuel Miranda, who continues to be Yeshiva University's most high profile pitchman, announces a partnership with YU's theater club to launch a new musical about the life and times of Benjamin Cardozo. A sample lyric: "Everybody knows I'm the poet laureate of jurisprudence/Repping Common Law just like I'm reppin all the Juden/You know my reputation, my legal acumen/Appeal to me as Chief Judge, but you can call me Ben."

Comments

[Larvell Blanks]

If there’s not a Bozo rhyme it’s a missed opportunity.

[DaivdBehar]

Didn't Cardozo write Palsgraf? Didn't he say that the forecasting of rare accidents is the basis of liability? Didn't the Catholic Church believe that God could predict accidents and prevent them? That is their faith. Not even the Medieval Church said man can predict rare accidents. Isn't Cardozo psycho for believing rare accidents can be forecast? He is psychotic, but then the most toxic occupation on earth adopted his delusion as a fundamental tenet of liability. We are totally sick of you sick fuck lawyers.

[David Nieporent]

Didn't he say that the forecasting of rare accidents is the basis of liability?

No.

Isn't Cardozo psycho for believing rare accidents can be forecast?

No.

And of course what's particularly weird about this rant — I mean, there are many things — is that Cardozo came down against liability in this case.

[Syd Henderson]

Given who he replaced, I hope he gets to sing "There's no place like Holmes'."

[Alan Vanneman]

An Eminem he isn't

[CJColucci]

This will be a real challenger because Cardozo apparently had a very dull life.

[Cal Cetín]

That's what you're supposed to think.

[CJColucci]

True story: I once attended a committee meeting at which the featured speaker was Andrew Kaufman, who wrote the definitive -- probably only -- biography of Cardozo. Cardozo led a notoriously ascetic life. He never married and the only relationships he seemed to have with women were with his mother and sister. Kaufman said the most common question he got at speaking engagements was: "Was Cardozo gay?" Kaufman would always tell questioners that Cardozo was a Sephardic Jew of the Iberian branch, a remarkably close-knit and insular group, and that among them bachelor and even celibate lives were common. Doesn't mean he wasn't gay, but there was no evidence of it.
Another true story: Though less common now than when I started out, NY lawyers when asked about the capabilities of some state judge unfamiliar to the questioner, would often say, "He's no Cardozo, but..." That prompted me to write a not-very-good story in which one of the dimmer characters thinks this refers to a sitting judge named Noah Cardozo, and an even worse one where one of the main characters is a sitting judge actually named Noah Cardozo.

[SKofNJ]

How low our culture has sunk.

[santamonica811]

What does "one of twenty-two" mean? Context is not helping me.

[gormadoc]

Name of the article: "22 absolutely on-the-mark pop culture predictions for 2022".

[santamonica811]

Thanks! 🙂

[Cal Cetín]

https://kansaspress.ku.edu/978-0-7006-0817-1.html

FIELD

Now lemme introduce myself, I'm Stephen J. Field
To my legal powers everyone must yield
Hamilton was killed by a political hack
But a killer ex-judge who tried to kill me got whacked

STORY

I'm the cream of Harvard's crop, a legal Tom Sawyer
I come out on top in a Conflict of Lawyers
I'm the inimitable Joseph Story
I have an appetite for law, everyone else is boring

HAND

Without Learned on the Court, the Supremes are incomplete
If I don't lend a Hand, they just can't compete
They tried to sideline me and ignore my life
Now you'll all come crawling back like my misguided wife

[Cal Cetín]

I'm William Johnson and I'm on the case
I'm the Carolinian who put racists in their place
I expound the law while John Marshall struts and preens
I'm the most biggest Johnson the Court has ever seen
I'm a clever stylist like the late James Thurber
I make John Marshall look as dumb as Warren Burger

[Cal Cetín]

Who's the greatest? You only need to guess once
I'm Harlan - the first and the best one
I stand up to those who threaten the nation
I defend business rights and oppose segregation