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 ...
The freedom of thousands of people hangs in the balance while courts decide whether their imprisonment is lawful.
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 ...
Once President-Elect Biden takes office, we will be able to say goodbye to new judges who self-identify as originalists. This change is important because in constitutional cases, originalism is either ...
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 ...
'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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
President Trump has retained support from many Republicans and conservatives thanks to a Faustian bargain: So long as he stacks the judiciary with friendly judges, they’ll look the other way when he ...
Politics is like mud wrestling. No one comes out clean. And as recent comments by Senior Judge Paul Friedman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia show, that holds especially true ...
"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 ...