In New York and other states, the criminal justice reform movement has generally focused on reshaping laws, law enforcement tactics and prosecutorial actions to address mass incarceration and racial ...
Upon reading the article, “Group recommends ending Maryland’s contested elections for circuit court judges” (Oct. 15), my first thought was, here we go again. How utterly arrogant to state that they ...
What will it take to get crime under control in our subways and public transit systems?   On Monday, news broke of another ...
It is a dangerous time to be a judge in America. Retired Wisconsin judge John Roemer was killed at his home in June 2022. That same month, US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh narrowly avoided a ...
The historic courtroom in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court is getting an update. The driving force behind this is to better convey the change over time in the diversity of judges who serve Maryland ...
'This is a judge who has seen a lot and heard a lot and is doing his best to kind of share what he has learned on the job,' said Prof. Leah Litman The GazetteThe Senate during the opening day of the ...
Despite repeated Supreme Court warnings against nationwide injunctions, obstinate district-court judges kept insisting upon their right to “micro-manage” the executive branch, fumes The Federalist’s ...
"The indispensable judicial requisite is intellectual humility." —Justice Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court This past June, a majority of the Supreme Court once again treated established precedent ...
Conservatives have long complained about so-called activist judges, meaning those who they think are stretching the meaning of existing laws and historical precedent in order to achieve the judge’s ...
FOLKS IN Luzerne County are asking, and it’s understandable, “What’s going on with our courts and judges?” But they’re not alone in being concerned. The recent troubles plaguing the Luzerne County ...
The reputation of Louisiana's 371-member judiciary -- injured two years ago by the conviction of a Baton Rouge judge on federal corruption charges and by last year's brawl between two appellate court ...