In Address to ABA, Justice Breyer Reflects on 'Difficult Year'
As unhappy as he was about being on the losing side in so many cases last term, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said Saturday his faith in the legal system and the rule of law is undiminished. "I had a difficult year," Breyer said before the opening assembly of the ABA's annual meeting. "I was in dissent quite a lot, and I wasn't happy." What makes him still proud of the system is that disputes over race and other deeply emotional issues are worked out "in the courts, not in the streets."
ABA Commission Pulls Proposal on Criminal Records
A controversial American Bar Association proposal that urged sealing records of some criminal convictions and arrests has been pulled from the agenda of the association's House of Delegates meeting. Business and media groups had expressed concern about the proposal, which was aimed at making it easier for convicted people who have served their time, and those whose arrests never led to a conviction, to gain employment and housing without the stigma of past records found in online databases and elsewhere.
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