Time for a Pro-People CT Supreme Court

The People’s Parity Project and a coalition of twenty organizations, including the Alliance for Justice, American Constitution Society, League of Conservation Voters, Lambda Legal, and the CT Pro-People Judiciary Coalition recently sent an open letter calling on Governor Ned Lamont to nominate a woman of color from a pro-people background to the current vacancy on the Connecticut Supreme Court.

The letter, sent on August 6th, follows significant advocacy and research from PPP and the coalition around the overrepresentation of former corporate attorneys and prosecutors and relative lack of former public defenders, civil rights, legal aid, labor, environmental, and plaintiffs’ attorneys on Connecticut state courts. Empirical research has shown that the very backgrounds dominating Connecticut courts are the same ones more likely to lead to poor outcomes for ordinary people facing down powerful entities like corporations and the state.

Governor Lamont is expected to announce a nominee sometime before Chief Justice Richard Robinson steps down in September.

The full text of the letter can be found here: https://peoplesparity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/CT-Open-Letter.pdf