Even as Connecticut’s acting chief justice, David M. Borden, is pushing the state’s court system into more openness, his chief court administrator, Judge William J. Lavery, is arguing for continuing the judiciary’s unaccountability.
Judges, Lavery wrote in a recent essay published in several newspapers, are like surgeons. Nobody would tell surgeons how to do their jobs, and so no one should tell judges how to do theirs. That is why, Lavery wrote, the power to make the rules of court procedure should be left with the judges themselves.
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