‘Pro-Legal Immigrant’ and Ignorant
The previous lesson dealt with how anti-migrant advocates divorce the law from justice. Migrant suffering cannot be justified simply because they "broke the law". The law is supposed to serve justice. Even more ridiculous, … [Read more...]
Justice For Migrants
From the Declaration of Independence:We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of … [Read more...]
TODAY was the 80th Anniversary of the executions of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Robert Meeropol spoke; I found this especially affecting as his parents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were executed in 1953. He was three when they were arrested, and six when they were executed. He asked who studies or … [Read more...]
Nation of Perpetual Punishment
Cross-posted at Marry in Massachusetts.A startling percentage of us seem to demand perpetual punishment for him, as we do for most convicted criminals. Surely if the vengeance crowd had compassion, they lost it. If they learned the concepts … [Read more...]
New Chief Justice sought for Massachusetts Probate and Family Courts
Nomination Sought for Position of Chief Justice of the Probate and Family CourtChief Justice Dunphy of the Probate and Family Court is retiring on September 28, 2007.Robert Mulligan, the Chief Justice for Administration and Management … [Read more...]
My first response to the SJC – LaGuer opinion
I got calls and emails today from several news organizations wanting to know what I thought of the SJC opinion. I decided to keep it brief by issuing this statement:The SJC opinion is very disappointing given the many indications that … [Read more...]
Budget Hole – in access to justice – with remedy
As a practical matter, line item 0321-1510 is always underfunded. Many are. It may be that there is a hope that "there will be more tax revenue later" or that "we won't need to pay these folks, we will need fewer hours service … [Read more...]
Why isn’t there a working group in the Patrick/Murray Transition Team on Administration of Justice?
There really does need to be a "working group" on Administration of Justice. Why:Well, for starters, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the ONLY state where there is a separate line item for each court. What happens is if the … [Read more...]
Apologia for the unsavory defendant…
Nowhere else, in all the globe, is this ethic so prized and honed as in Massachusetts... Or am I the only one to see, in the most recent of debates, the poetics of staging (perhaps accidental...) which here radiate and fairly glisten with … [Read more...]