IF SO, THEY MIGHT WANT TO TRY, YOU KNOW, DISPLAYING IT: Do Judges Have Inherent Dignity? “Over the course of a lazy three day weekend, Judge Mahon beclowned himself and disgraced his office. He did so by subverting the United States Constitution, which he is sworn to uphold and protect, in a vain attempt to protect that now vanished dignity.” If you want dignity, be dignified. If you want respect, be respectable.