An actual criminal attorney in NYC did a far better job of deconstructing this judicial tourist's article than I can: http://blog.simplejustice.us/2016/08/13/the-dilettante-judge...
I'm sure lawyers and judges look up and down at each other with elitism, and they can take that up among themselves or whatever. But this "too cynical to be outraged at a really fucked up system" stuff helps nobody, and is just it's own kind of pretentiousness, directed at the rest of us.