JUDGING THE JUDGES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 26, 15 September 1911, Page 4

JUDGING THE JUDGES

“ Now it is the judicial system of the United States that is undergoing critical scrutiny,” says Current Literature. “With the Court openly charged by one of its own members with ‘dangerous usurpation’ of Legislative powers to an extent that ‘mav well cause some alarm for the iu-

tegrity of our institutions’; with the President of the United States charging that a condition exists in our criin- ' nil ran is that is l ‘startling and umiliating,’ and that the situation in our civil courts places the poor man at a woeful disadvantage’ with a rich •p pc cent; with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court appointing a commission, to consist of himself ar.d two assoc into justices, for the purpose of reforming the rules of procedure m too courts of equity of the United States; and with a formidable movement in many States to make all our judges subject to ‘recall’ at any time, under provisions which constitute, according to the Attorney-General, of die United States, ‘an attack on the independence of the judiciary’—those developments coming one after mother in quick succession have had a cumulative effect that borders close noon the sensational.”