Archive for June 17th, 2009
Groups hail creation of commission
West Virginia Record
By Justin Anderson
June 16, 2009
CHARLESTON – Legal advocacy groups hailed Gov. Joe Manchin’s official creation of a nine-member commission to study the state’s court system.
But while one of the groups said the commission is long overdue, the other is calling for an objective look at the system, free from special interest bias.
“This critical [...]
Just politicians in judicial robes?
Charleston Daily Mail
June 17, 2009
RETIRED U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor lamented in a May speech to the American Bar Association the public’s mistrust of judges as “just politicians in robes” rather than impartial jurists.
Fairly or not, that accurately characterizes the views of a substantial number of West Virginians.
Some West Virginia justices have [...]
