For years, the old New Haven County courthouse facing the Green has been obscured by scaffolding on the front entrance and an out-of-place blue awning over the staff-only exit on the Church Street side. Indeed, as far back as 2007, attorney Jonathan J. Einhorn wrote in the New Haven County Bar Association’s publication, Marble Columns, that “[o]ur Courthouse at 121 Elm Street has graduated to permanent scaffolding.”
This may seem an odd topic for an editorial, but we think it’s important that work on the courthouse (which for a while was delayed due to the presence of a pair of nesting red-tailed hawks) be completed as expeditiously as possible. Public respect for the law suffers when the halls of justice are treated as just another endless construction project, like the interminable work on Interstate 95. If the government wants people to respect the legal process, it has to put its money where its mouth is.
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