The judiciary as a connected web
Roam from William Peter Van Ness to the people and institutions around them.
Click any node to recenter, to the president who appointed them, the seat they filled, the school they share with classmates on the bench, or the judge they preceded.
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Why this matters. No competing free judge site offers a browsable relational graph. Every relationship here (appointment, seat succession, shared school) is a first-class, clickable object. Back to William Peter Van Ness’s profile.