The Conference of Chief Justices, which includes top judicial officers from across the country, is scheduled to meet in Honolulu during the first week of February.
The group will hold its annual midyear conference February 2-5, 2020 in Honolulu, according to a notice posted on its website. The specific location for the invitation-only event is not disclosed in the published notice.
The Conference of Chief Justices “provides an opportunity for the highest judicial officers of the states to meet and discuss matters of importance in improving the administration of justice, rules and methods of procedure, and the organization and operation of state courts and judicial systems, and to make recommendations and bring about improvements on such matters.”
The groups membership includes “the highest judicial officer of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the territories of American Samoa, Guam and the Virgin Islands.”
Mark Recktenwald, chief justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court, is on several CCJ committees, including two joint committees with the Conference of State Court Administrators (COSCA) on Access and Fairness, and Court Management.
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Does anyone think any of these 10 problems with legal system will be substantively addressed?
Speedy trial is one deficiency.
Over-determination of juries by striking for supposed bias, and suppression of information on jury nullification is another.
Unchecked power of prosecutors’ offices, with virtually no consequences for misbehavior, or consequences way too late for deterrence, is a third.
Denial of jury trial for 90% of defendants through overcharging and subsequent extortionate negotiations with defendants is a fourth.
Nationally applied injunctions by Federal district judges is a fifth.
Default deference to bureaucracies’ interpretation of their own rules and regulations is a sixth.
Lawyers in active practice who, ex officio, serve also as officers of the court, while holding elected office as legislators writing law violating separation of powers, is a seventh.
Judges presuming to over-rule actions of the elected Executive by reference to motive rather than enumerated powers, language of statute, and the actual words of the executive orders, when national security and immigration policies are entirely within the executive power, but contentious, is an eighth.
Selection of judges by committees of lawyers is a ninth.
Over-cautious refusal to dismiss frivolous lawsuits, and neglect to sanction vexatious litigants, is a tenth.
On a darker note, what a target……. Thank you President Trump….