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This is the third installment of a three-part series by Jean Trounstine on the Massachusetts Governor’s Council, produced by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism.
September 28, 2024
Source: The Shoestring, Independent News for Western Massachusetts
The Supreme Court decision in Trump v. United States poses a significant threat to our democracy by effectively providing the president with sweeping legal immunity for criminal acts. The idea that a president should be granted constitutional protection from prosecution for otherwise criminal “official acts” is an affront to the fundamental principle of American democracy that no one is above the law.
September 23, 2024
Source: Constitutional Law Center
If appointed, Associate Justice Raheem Mullins would become the second Black chief justice on Connecticut’s Supreme Court, yet his nomination still leaves the open seat on the court.
September 2, 2024
Source: Yale Daily News
Shortly after the nomination, a coalition of non-profit groups, including the Alliance for Justice, the American Constitution Society, Lambda Legal, and the Connecticut League of Conservation Voters, in a letter to Lamont, asked for more diversity on the high bench.
August 29, 2024
Source: Alliance for Justice
Gov. Ned Lamont on Thursday nominated Raheem L. Mullins, an associate justice of the State Supreme Court, to become the next chief justice and top administrator for all Connecticut courts.
August 29, 2024
Source: CT Insider
Gov. Ned Lamont on Thursday nominated Raheem L. Mullins, an associate justice of the State Supreme Court, to become the next chief justice and top administrator for all Connecticut courts.
August 29, 2024
Source: Yale Daily News
An opening on the state Supreme Court has sparked discussion of the value of demographic and professional diversity in a judiciary dominated by former corporate attorneys.
August 28, 2024
Source: Yale Daily News
A group of left-leaning public-interest groups want Gov. Ned Lamont to nominate a woman of color to fill Connecticut's Supreme Court vacancy.
August 18, 2024
Source: Connecticut Law Tribune
A coalition of state and national organizations on Tuesday released a letter they’d sent to Gov. Ned Lamont asking that he nominate a replacement for retiring state Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard A. Robinson who will improve the court’s racial and professional diversity.
August 7, 2024
Source: CT News Junkie
The Supreme Court has too much power. Beginning with the 1803 case Marbury v. Madison, in which the power of judicial review was given to the Court by the Court, the justices of the Supreme Court have been on an unrelenting march to concentrate power in their own hands, to the detriment of working people.
August 5, 2024
Source: People's Parity Project
Today, the People’s Parity Project released “Imbalanced Justice: Massachusetts,” the most recent installment in a series of reports on professional diversity on state benches across the country. This new report examines the professional backgrounds of 114 judges on the appellate and superior courts in Massachusetts. The report finds that nearly half of those judges—including all seven justices on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Courts—had experience working as corporate lawyers before being appointed to the bench. Further, the report finds that 60% of judges surveyed have worked as prosecutors. Only a handful of judges worked as civil rights lawyers, public defenders, legal aid attorneys, or in other positions dedicated to serving the people, rather than powerful interests.
May 7, 2024
Source: People's Parity Project
On behalf of the CT Pro-People Judiciary Coalition, PPP Organizing & Network Director submitted testimony to the Connecticut General Assembly’s Joint Committee on Judiciary.
March 11, 2024
Source: People's Parity Project
The Supreme Court is a supreme threat to American democracy. That was Abraham Lincoln’s view in light of the Dred Scott decision, expressed in his First Inaugural Address. And it was vividly illustrated after Lincoln's assassination, when the Civil War amendments and civil rights legislation passed by Congress were effectively nullified by the Supreme Court, enabling former Confederates and other white supremacists to destroy the possibility of multiracial democracy for almost a century.
March 3, 2024
Source: MSN News/Salon
Connecticut renters are more likely to face harsher judgments in housing proceedings before a judge with a prosecutorial background, who make up many of those on the bench, according to a recent report.
February 15, 2024
Source: Law360
As the General Assembly gears up to consider legislation that would greatly expand eviction protections for renters in the state, Connecticut’s landlords feel that they are increasingly being placed between a rock and a hard place.
February 14, 2024
Source: CT News Junkie
Eviction outcomes in Connecticut’s housing courts could depend on the professional background of a judge, according to a recent report by the People’s Parity Project.
February 13, 2024
Source: CT News Junkie
The Monday report from the People’s Parity Project — an organization of attorneys and students from law schools across the country, including a chapter at the University of Connecticut — examined case outcomes and judges’ professional backgrounds in Connecticut housing court.
February 13, 2024
Source: Hartford Courant
In part four of 5-4‘s series on the Federalist Society, PPP’s Executive Director Molly Coleman spoke about where the legal left has gone wrong in the past, and PPP’s current work to challenge the corporate capture of the legal system.
February 13 2024
Source: People's Parity Project, 5-4 Podcast
The Monday report from the People’s Parity Project — an organization of attorneys and students from law schools across the country, including a chapter at the University of Connecticut — examined case outcomes and judges’ professional backgrounds in Connecticut housing court.
February 12, 2024
Source: CT Mirror
The People’s Parity Project released a report assessing the impact of judges’ professional backgrounds on outcomes in eviction cases, finding statistically significant differences in average renter outcomes depending on judges’ legal experience. Additionally, the backgrounds most favorable to renters were those most underrepresented on the Connecticut bench.
February 11, 2024
Source: People's Parity Project
Steve Kennedy, an organizer of the People’s Parity Project, said his group would continue to seek the nomination of judges from “more diverse backgrounds, including from legal fields that are underrepresented on our state bench.”
September 1, 2023
Source: CT Mirror
There’s racial diversity and then there’s professional diversity and while Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has been praised for his racial diversity on the bench, it’s the latter that’s causing advocates to speak out. A coalition of legal advocates again voiced their concerns Wednesday about the overrepresentation of former prosecutors and corporate attorneys serving as Connecticut judges.
August 24, 2023
Source: CT News Junkie
The Connecticut Pro-People Judiciary Coalition, the group that, more specifically, is pushing for additional experience in public defense and civil rights law, made the plea in a press conference Wednesday. The coalition has also released a list of candidates they hope Lamont will consider for future selections.
August 24, 2023
Source: Hartford Courant
We are thrilled to announce our next cohort of PPP Leadership Fellows—fourteen second-year law students from around the country who will dedicate 10–15 hours per week for the next two years to leading organizing efforts on their campus to end the corporate capture of the legal profession.
August 15, 2023
Source: People's Parity Project
With the evictions crisis rising in high-priced Connecticut, Prof. Mike Stanton's investigative reporting class in Fall 2022 looked into the impact on the people of southeastern Connecticut. The result was the story and sidebar, “A Day in Eviction Court,” published on March 5, 2023 in The Day, a daily newspaper in New London.
May 17, 2023
Source: The Day
Steve Kennedy ’23 was studying for a Ph.D in biochemistry at New York University when he made a bold course change and applied to the UConn School of Law. It was no random move. Kennedy had been immersed in legal matters for years, working with the Veterans Legal Services Clinic at Yale Law School as a plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit and as an advocate for legislation supporting veterans.
March 6, 2023
Source: The Daily Campus
An eviction is like a ticking clock. From the moment a landlord files a “notice to quit” ― giving a tenant three days to move out or face legal action ― it’s a race against time. And tenants run that race through a legal minefield, where one wrong step can determine whether they’re able to keep a roof over their head.
March 4, 2023
Source: The Day
Rosa Acevedo sits in an empty courtroom, tears rolling down her cheeks, holding onto a document-stuffed notebook and fading hopes. The documents chronicle a months-long struggle to remain in her first-floor apartment in New London, one of more than 1,600 cases that played out in New London County last year.
March 3, 2023
Source: The Day
More than two dozen national progressive groups are urging President Joe Biden and Senate Democratic leaders to fill every single judicial vacancy this year, before Republicans potentially take control of the Senate in November and make it much harder to confirm Biden’s lifetime federal judges.
June 30, 2022
Source: Huffington Post
Steve Kennedy ’23 was studying for a Ph.D in biochemistry at New York University when he made a bold course change and applied to the UConn School of Law. It was no random move. Kennedy had been immersed in legal matters for years, working with the Veterans Legal Services Clinic at Yale Law School as a plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit and as an advocate for legislation supporting veterans.
December 7, 2020
Source: UConn Today
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