CT courts belong to the people, not just lawyers

February 12 2025

For the last two years, I have led a coalition of community organizations and advocates pushing for a judiciary that values people over powerful entities and corporate profits.

Our work aims to show the state government how skewed the courts are against ordinary people when they attempt to seek justice in a judiciary dominated by former corporate lawyers and prosecutors. While our work has had some success in shifting the conversation around demographic and professional diversity among Connecticut judges, I am sad to say that our strategy has faced nearly insurmountable barriers.

We had assumed that in a solidly Democratic state, our governor, legislators, and others in positions of political power would jump to address a problem harming so many of their constituents. We did not account for the obstacle that the legal profession would prove to be.

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