About Michael Ponsor: Michael Adrian Ponsor is a senior judge on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He serves in the court's western region, in the city of Springfield.
If you want the best evidence of just how strong our democracy is, come into the courtroom.
For me, taking the sort of dry principles of the law and bringing them into contact with human beings . . . it's like you jump into hyperspace. And everything that's dull about the books and the theory becomes provocative.