Tag: US criminal justice system

Justice Jackson Could Be an Asset to the Supreme Court

Commentary The confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court of the United States is being loudly proclaimed by the Biden administration as a triumph for diversity, equality, African-American rights, women’s rights, and of an interpretation of the Constitution that’s so flexible, it’s reduced to a platitude enjoining jurists to interpret the Constitution…


Questions About the Ghislaine Maxwell Trial

Commentary The recent trial of Ghislaine Maxwell raises, as prominent or complicated trials in the United States often do, serious questions about how the American criminal justice system operates. I have known Ghislaine Maxwell for 35 years and knew her father quite well when we were both proprietors of British national newspapers. He was a…