Who will judge the chief judge who says courts are too tough on crime?

Exhibit A for how badly New York politicians have twisted the state’s legal system has to be Chief Judge Rowan Wilson — who just proudly delivered a speech demanding leniency for murderers and other serious criminals and violating basic judicial ethics by urging voters to reject tough judges.As the head of the state’s top bench, the Court of Appeals, and chief of the entire Empire State judicial branch, Wilson has a clear duty to avoid needless controversy, let alone anything resembling electioneering — yet apparently he can’t be bothered to behave.Speaking at CUNY School of Law (which is notorious for pushing far-left jurisprudence), Wilson described the judicial system he runs as “stupid” because it sends murderers and rapists to prison for long terms of incarceration.He stepped way out of bounds by endorsing the proposed “Second Look Act,” which would give inmates serving long sentences another chance to get out early, on top of many similar “empty the prisons” so-called reforms of recent years.

“They hurt someone maybe very seriously in the past,” Wilson mused.“But they have come to be a very different person” — at least, that’s what he imagines to happen all the time.The victims of criminal savagery and their families won’t find Wilson’s faith in the power of redemption very touching, but plainly the judge doesn’t spend much time thinking about them.

Nope: He’s upset that it’s so hard to “get judges at the moment of sentencing” to realize “that there isn’t a re-sentencing available.”Evidently, he imagines that New York judges are so dim they don’t realize that once they send a guilty criminal to prison ..

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Worse, he has contempt for jurists who don’t share...