Court Review: Volume 40, Issue 2 - A Court and a Judiciary That Is as Good as Its Promise

Authors

Kevin S. Burke, Hennepin County District Court

Date of this Version

July 2003

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association, 40:2 (2003), pp. 4-6. Copyright © 2003 National Center for State Courts. Used by permission. Online at http://aja.ncsc.dni.us/htdocs/publications.htm.

Abstract

Today the dissatisfaction with the administration of justice is at a level that none of us should tolerate or accept, for it threatens our democracy as much or more than any terrorist. The nation’s dissatisfaction with the administration of justice is our issue of homeland security. In Pound’s speech, he spoke first of the popular assumption that the administration of justice is an easy task to which anyone is competent. The fact that I am the recipient of the Rehnquist Award proves to many that Pound was correct.