Connecticut’s judiciary imploded from the top last week amid an act of gross misconduct by the retiring chief justice. Shocking and disgraceful as it was, it may have been the prerequisite for fixing the greater misconduct, the judiciary’s perversion of the law into a license for unaccountability.
The retiring chief justice, William Sullivan, admitted, upon public accusation by fellow Justice David Borden, that he had delayed by more than a month the publication of a Supreme Court decision so that a colleague nominated by Gov. Jodi Rell as chief justice, Justice Peter Zarella, might not have to answer for it during the General Assembly’s review of his nomination.
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