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superrific said:
There were no such portraits at Prettyman when I was clerking.
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What year was that?

I expect things have changed.

In 1978, when I started to drive, there were no signs at the state line proclaiming who is Governor.

I don’t remember the year that BS began. It is BS.
 
Calheel said:
I can't vouch for every federal courthouse, but I see them regularly in all the CD Cal courthouses and it has always freaked me out.
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Yeah, they’re in all the NC federal courthouses and in the US Attorney’s Office for WDNC (I assume they’re in the other ones as well). Been that way since I started practicing during the GWB admin and I understand it was like that during the Clinton administration before it. Not sure when it started but probably dates back a long time.
 
Calheel said:
I can't vouch for every federal courthouse, but I see them regularly in all the CD Cal courthouses and it has always freaked me out.
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I'm not doubting you. I'm just passing along information. Either it's not everywhere, or the policy began in the later Bush years or Obama years.
 
superrific said:
I'm not doubting you. I'm just passing along information. Either it's not everywhere, or the policy began in the later Bush years or Obama years.
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Or it is not uniform. I have a vague memory of the Clinton photo (the creepy one that Conan used for all of Clinton bits with the fake mouth) staring at me every time I went through the metal detector in the 1990s.

I never understood why the federal government would want to personify its leadership. It seems very antithetical to our values.
 
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