Disobeying the law is what makes a crime. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land. It requires judges, like the rest of us, to obey it, but they often refuse. A crime is a crime. Of course, one won t find many lawyers who admit that the above described judicial actions are crimes.
Jury trials take too long, they ll say.
If judges didn't have the tools they needed to keep things moving, courts would never get anything done. Amending the Constitution to fix the problem would be unwieldy. Besides the people might come up with an unwise fix. It s better to arrange for a Supreme Court precedent. Please pardon a short digression while I explain Supreme Court precedents.