The Editorial Board

August 25, 2016 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Rebuffed time and again by the Missouri legislature and Gov. Jay Nixon, who refused to substantially increase the budget for indigent criminal defense, the chief public defender, Michael Barrett, had enough. He recently took an unusual and desperate step. He appointed Nixon, a licensed Missouri attorney, to represent an indigent client accused in an assault case. We applaud this bold action.

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July 27, 2016 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Some issues, such as abortion, euthanasia and capital punishment, evoke hard line and devout positions. People are divided in their views on these topics and their beliefs are often firmly entrenched. It is with this mind that we applaud the Supreme Court's decision-making in its recent death-penalty decisions.

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July 25, 2016 | Connecticut Law Tribune

At a time when American citizens and political leaders are increasingly comfortable with hate speech and the rise of previously subversive gender and racial biases, it is disappointing, though maybe not surprising, that the General Assembly decided to reorganize (eliminate) the six nonpartisan legislative commissions on racial and ethnic minorities and women and children.

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August 14, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

Since Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane is adamant that she will not resign, the focus of the political and legal communities must shift to whether there is an expeditious procedure to remove her from the office that she has tarnished.

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August 13, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

Since Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane is adamant that she will not resign, the focus of the political and legal communities must shift to whether there is an expeditious procedure to remove her from the office that she has tarnished.

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June 16, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

The federal law that requires gender equality in higher education, commonly referred to as Title IX, has brought about many laudable results since it was first passed in 1972. But at the behest of the U.S. Department of Education in 2011, the law that was passed to ensure that female students get equal opportunity was refashioned to require that schools investigate and punish sexual assaults on campus under DOE-approved procedures.

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June 15, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

The federal law that requires gender equality in higher education, commonly referred to as Title IX, has brought about many laudable results since it was first passed in 1972. But at the behest of the U.S. Department of Education in 2011, the law that was passed to ensure that female students get equal opportunity was refashioned to require that schools investigate and punish sexual assaults on campus under DOE-approved procedures.

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February 24, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." The axiom applies to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Criminal Procedural Rules Committee's nine-word proposed amendment to Pennsylvania Rule of Criminal Procedure 701 (Pleas of Guilty to Multiple Offenses): "with the agreement of the attorney for the commonwealth."

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February 23, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." The axiom applies to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Criminal Procedural Rules Committee's nine-word proposed amendment to Pennsylvania Rule of Criminal Procedure 701 (Pleas of Guilty to Multiple Offenses): "with the agreement of the attorney for the commonwealth."

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November 25, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

To Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane: On Oct. 22, we directed an editorial to you ("Pennsylvania AG Needs to Live Up to Oath of Office," in The Legal) requesting that you provide the public and the bar with the names of all your employees and former employees who sent pornographic emails to judges and other public officials of Pennsylvania. Previously, you had made public certain recipients—but not all—of the pornographic emails, and you declined to provide the originators of the emails, on the basis of some vague reference to labor or contract issues. We are not persuaded by that excuse. Justice Seamus McCaffery has resigned from the Supreme Court, in great part because of those emails. Several other public officials have resigned, as well. But you have remained strangely silent on the role of your current and former employees.

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