By Chris Powell Hooray for the 500 lawyers who this month formed the Connecticut Rule of Law Committee, reprimanded President Trump, without quite naming him, for his recklessness about due process and his bullying of the judiciary, and righteously recommitted themselves to the rule of law. Trump often deserves scolding, even if it has yet to doContinue reading “‘Rule of law’ advocates have many blind spots”
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Connecticut Public isn’t public about its salaries
By Chris Powell Connecticut Public, the state affiliate of the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio, may be a bit ill-named. It calls itself as “Connecticut’s only statewide, community-supported public media service,” striving “to be an essential source for truth and ideas.” Connecticut fails to notice that poverty is exploding Defeat police cover-up billContinue reading “Connecticut Public isn’t public about its salaries”
Praise late chief justice but not for Sheff case
By Chris Powell As the first woman to get tenure as a professor at Yale Law School, the first woman appointed to Connecticut’s Supreme Court, and the state’s first woman chief justice, Ellen Ash Peters must have had something going for her. But the tributes offered for her last week after her death at ageContinue reading “Praise late chief justice but not for Sheff case”
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