Public confidence in courts could be nearing a crisis point in an era of polarization, a panel including veteran judicial leaders and lawyers said Friday.
And the recent leak of a U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion was condemned by former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy as a “cowardly, corrupt, contemptuous act.”
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