May not be evidence of absence, as the cliché says, but it sure excites suspicion.  No one has communicated to me, nor has, AFAIK, anyone in the trade press or blogosphere explicitly stated, any reason for the abrupt departure last August of ex-STJ Eunkyong Choi from the Tax Court bench.

I said in my blogpost “The Rest Is Silence,” 1/16/24, “‘The rest is silence.’ Maybe for Horatio; not for me it isn’t.”

Wherefore I am left to speculate on a very slender basis, furnished by the esteemed head of Harvard Law School’s LITC, Keith Fogg, Esq., in that pillar of the trade press Tax Notes, under dates of 6/22/23 and 7/11/23. Prof. Fogg scooped me good and proper, as I was chasing other game those dates. Good job, first class, Sir.

I must repeat myself: “I am no purveyor of conspiracy theories, neither do I make mysteries where there are none.” See my blogpost “Omertà at the Glasshouse?” 1/18/24.

Nevertheless, and notwithstanding the foregoing, was ex-STJ Choi fired for making a rookie error? Moreover, one that was very publicly called out?