Judicial "Activism" at It's Best

Some people are funny. Some people can't help being funny. And sometimes those people are Appellate Court judges. In an opinion handed down yesterday in the Seventh U.S. Court of Appeals, based in Chicago, was a little footnote gem:

The trial transcript quotes Ms. Hayden as saying Murphy called her a snitch bitch “hoe.” A “hoe,” of course, is a tool used for weeding and gardening. We think the court reporter, unfamiliar with rap music (perhaps thankfully so), misunderstood Hayden’s response. We have taken the liberty of changing “hoe” to “ho,” a staple of rap music vernacular as, for example, when Ludacris raps “You doin’ ho activities with ho tendencies.”