Ben Barnes, the governor’s budget director, recently described Connecticut government as being in a state of permanent fiscal crisis. Though he has since withdrawn the statement, Gov. Dannel Malloy himself admitted during a town hall meeting recently that even he has begun to wonder whether he has the chops to sort out the slow-motion financial train wreck that threatens to reshape government as we know it. This could markedly and permanently change how courts work.
In past iterations of this fiscal Kabuki play, court personnel have been chopped, clerks’ offices put on limited hours and other nonlife-threatening stopgap measures implemented to weather the storm. Things always returned to status quo ante soon enough and went along as ever. Maybe not this time.
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