Chris Powell

August 18, 2017 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Both sides in the immigration controversy are destroying the law in their own way.

By CHRIS POWELL

6 minute read

June 23, 2017 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Deference to the families of the schoolchildren and educators murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in 2012 has gone much too far.

By Chris Powell

3 minute read

September 21, 2016 | Connecticut Law Tribune

A century ago Theodore Roosevelt, while regarded as a flaming liberal, nevertheless argued that the first duty of a citizen is to pull his own weight. The collapse of schools, cities, and the state itself is what happens when public policy disagrees.

By CHRIS POWELL

6 minute read

September 08, 2016 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Dream of a world where everything stupid, contemptible, or phony was also unconstitutional. That's what the state Supreme Court invited Superior Court Judge Thomas Moukawsher to dream about public education, and this week he delivered in Technicolor.

By Chris Powell

7 minute read

September 01, 2016 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The General Assembly has let the system continue as legislators cower before the "mom and pop" liquor store operators, of whom every legislator's district has many.

By CHRIS POWELL

7 minute read

August 23, 2016 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Congratulations to Connecticut's Supreme Court for proclaiming the futility of public administration, ruling that a University of Connecticut employee who smoked marijuana while operating a university truck cannot be fired. The court's legal rationale was plausible but there was little consistency to it.

By CHRIS POWELL

5 minute read

August 03, 2016 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Illegal immigrants and their enablers have become a big constituency of the Democratic Party, and Sen. Blumenthal and Rep. Courtney are Democrats. While they regret Casey Chadwick's murder and the many crimes committed by other illegal immigrants, they don't regret them enough to risk proposing anything that might be effective.

By CHRIS POWELL

4 minute read

November 15, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Despite its legions of administrators with six-figure salaries, the University of Connecticut could not have handled the recent controversy about sexual assault among students worse than it did.

By Chris Powell

4 minute read

October 25, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Prospects for resolution of the country's immigration issues are fading in Congress as details complicate the outline of a settlement, essentially an immediate amnesty for all 11 million or so illegal aliens in exchange for much better control of the borders.

By Chris Powell

4 minute read

August 20, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Hartford minister and political activist Cornell Lewis and his friends are not likely to persuade anyone with their complaint that Connecticut should not have paid more attention to the murder of the Petit family in Cheshire than to recent murders in Hartford.

By CHRIS POWELL

4 minute read