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Jeffrey Toobin thinks the distinguished jurist is ‘simply too old,’ but the Constitution takes a different view.
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The assignment of presiding over the trial of Nicolás Maduro falls to Judge Alvin Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York — by all accounts an excellent jurist who happens to have been born in 1934, making him 92 years old. That is entirely too old for Jeffrey Toobin, who writes in the Times that Judge Hellerstein “must step aside” because he is “is simply too old, in my view, to preside over a matter of this magnitude.”
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|The assignment of presiding over the trial of Nicolás Maduro falls to Judge Alvin Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York — by all accounts an excellent jurist who happens to have been born in 1934, making him 92 years old. That is entirely too old for Jeffrey Toobin, who writes in the Times that Judge Hellerstein “must step aside” because he is “is simply too old, in my view, to preside over a matter of this magnitude.”
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