The verbiage excoriating judges, federal and state, from bigwigs of all political parties has ratcheted up to a level that has become unsafe for the independence and respect of the judiciary as a third, and equal, branch of government. Hostile ...

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House Bill 355, commonly known as the Judicial Transparency Act, is a bill that has no real benefit and should not become law. In it, the State Commission on Criminal Sentencing is to compile information on crimes and sentencing policy ...

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Ten years ago we wrote: “Just as surely as the swallows annually return to Capistrano, each winter advocates for and against Maryland’s current system of electing circuit court judges line up to do battle in Annapolis.” Nothing has changed. Recently ...

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Chief Judge Mary Ellen Barbera of the Court of Appeals, our highest court, has come out in favor of stripping the voters of their only real opportunity to hold state judges accountable for their performance. She proposes to end contested ...

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On Oct. 1 of this year, the deadline for the REAL ID will take effect.  For Marylanders, that means in order to have a valid driver’s license or state identification card, they will have had to provide necessary documentation to ...

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Currently pending before the Maryland General Assembly are two bills to submit a proposed constitutional amendment to the voters to change the process for filling an early-term vacancy in the Maryland Senate or House of Delegates. We support the bills. ...

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Under Maryland personal injury law, defendants alleged to have negligently caused harm can not only dispute the plaintiff’s claim but can raise affirmative defenses against the plaintiff.  In Maryland the defense that gets the most attention is the rule of ...

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A newly released staffing plan from the Baltimore City Police Department recommends closing the Animal Abuse Unit — something we view as a serious mistake in protecting the city from violent criminals! We previously wrote about the well-known nexus between ...

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With 2019 just behind us, we can take a moment to remember the passing of the last Republican elected Baltimore County executive and one of the few individuals to serve on the county school board in both the 20th and ...

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Del. Cheryl Glenn of Baltimore city abruptly resigned from the state legislature on Dec. 18. The reason for her resignation became clear on Dec. 23, when U.S. Attorney Robert Hur announced that Glenn had been charged with honest services wire ...

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