If you’re like me, you’ve probably been struggling with what feels like a world turned upside down, where justice, mercy, and compassion are in painfully short supply. The days feel darker, and the nights heavier. I say this as I sit in our nation’s capital, where the National Guard patrols our streets, homeless encampments are soon to be bulldozed, and undocumented neighbors are kidnapped and disappeared, all under the false banner of justice and accountability.
And yet, in the midst of so much bleakness, Judge Frank Caprio offered us a different vision of justice. Caprio, who passed away last week at 88, never sat on the Supreme Court, never wielded national power. He presided over traffic violations in Providence, Rhode Island, cases that most of us would consider routine, even banal.
