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For decades, David Tatel, a former federal judge on the DC Circuit Court, worked to conceal something significant about himself: He is blind. Once a sighted person who lost his vision early in his career, the lawyer and civil-rights champion developed stealthy workarounds to initially hide or downplay his lack of sight—from using the clicking sounds of a colleague’s heels in navigating a building to asking communications offices not to mention his blindness in press releases.
There’s a sign on your desk that says “Ask me about my dog,” so I figure that’s a good place to start. How is Vixen doing?] Vixen’s doing great. As you know, the last chapter in the book is called “The Dog That Changed My Life,” and that is not an overstatement.I’m as surprised as everybody. I had been told by people that a guide dog would do dramatic things for you in terms of promoting and improving your independence. What I didn’t know was how emotionally connected I would become to the dog.
Early in your career, you went to great lengths to hide your blindness from others, to the point that it seemed to be a source of shame for you. Where do you think that came from? Holding Court: Justices Sri Srinivasan, David Tatel, and Ketanji Brown Jackson in 2017. Photograph by Washington Post/GettyImages.
In college, you had a professor who taught you that the role of the courts was to “protect the individual from the Leviathan of government and to protect minorities against oppression.” At the same time, you strongly believe in judicial restraint–that it’s the judge’s job to uphold the law, not decide whether it’s good or bad. Was it difficult balancing these two philosophies? I could imagine them butting heads.
It’s very dangerous to have the public lose confidence in the courts. The court’s rulings are only effective if the public and the government accept them. The public will accept them if the decisions of the court have integrity and if the courts explain in very clear and judicial terms the basis for their decisions.is a very good example of that. Although it was deeply unpopular in the South, the public accepted it because the court explained itself in rational terms.
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