A Natural 20
Mike sits down with sitting Oregon Supreme Court Justice Bronson James — public defender and private practice lawyer turned Circuit Court, Court of Appeals, and now the state’s highest bench — for a rare, wide-ranging conversation with a sitting Justice. They start with comic-book tattoos and an actual ongoing Oregon Supreme Court Dungeons & Dragons campaign, then dig into the real stuff: what privacy even means in a world of data brokers and license plate readers, why Oregon’s 1859 constitution offers stronger protections than the federal floor, the “laboratories of democracy” under strain…
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