The Supreme Court judge at Ohio Sharon Kennedy gives comments on the Ohio court conference on the state of the judiciary. (Screenshot thanks to the kindness of the Ohio channel)
In the annual state of expressing the judiciary, Sharon Kennedy, the Supreme Supreme Court judge in Ohio, sought more civic education, committed himself to eliminate the “legal desert” and emphasized the importance of the independent court branch of the government.
“Maintaining judicial independence is based on public trust,” said Kennedy on Thursday at a court conference in Ohio. “This trust increases when we introduce innovations to solve the basic causes of crime, they completely open our courts to everyone, proactively deal with our solemn duties in the field of justice administering and build a clear, bold future for the profession of a lawyer in Ohio.”
Before she started prepared comments, Kennedy asked the conference for a “indulgence”, in which she called a moment of silence of victims and families on the anniversary of the attack of September 11.
She asked for a second moment of silence in honor of Charlie Kirk, a right -wing political activist who was fatally shot at a university campus event at Utah on Wednesday.
By asking for a moment of silence Kirk, Kennedy said: “As people, we come from different environments, from various denominations, from different political views and perspectives, but what connects us is humanity.”
The main judge added that “a solid debate on various points of view is necessary for free and civic society.”
Quoting the former US Supreme Court judge Louis Brandeis, she said about the disclosure of “lies and errors” that “the medicine for use is more speech, not enforced silence.”
The Republican Supreme Judge was elected in November 2022, as a second woman who served, replacing her colleague of the republican judge Maureen O’Connor.
For the first time she was chosen for a bench in 2012, working earlier in the Court System of Butler.
. Supreme Court in Ohio He is the Supreme Court in the state, a hearing from the lower courts, primarily in matters related to the state constitution, appeal against death and appeal against the public Utoms committee in Ohio.
The court has the freedom to accept any case that will consider “public or great general interest”.
The court has seen many matters related to the battle by the state in the last four years and is a jurisdiction court if the upcoming redistribution map of the Congress is legally questioned.
In an interview with members of the Court Conference in Ohio, Kennedy attributed to them to maintain the judicial independence of many different state courts, from joint allegations of urban courts, and distinguished a specialized dock, which focus on such topics as drug addiction and the challenge of mental health.
“Ohio’s judiciary has long been a lighthouse of independence and the freedom of innovation comes with this independence,” said Kennedy. “(Specialist docty) does not apply only to responsibility, they are healings, a second change and hope.”
The independence of the justice system must consist of impartiality and universal availability, according to the main judge, along with the renovated effort to complete matters in a timely manner.
“When cases delayed justice delayed, justice is rejected,” said Kennedy at the conference.
Improving the movement of matters by the system and access to proper representation must include the elimination of “legal deserts”.
To do this, the system must focus not only on recruiting more lawyers in this field, but also on the preparation of these lawyers. She compared the future of the right to residence and scholarships in the field of medicine.
“We have to talk to young people to be interested in them, to become a lawyer,” said Kennedy, while saying that you should do work to “increase the life cycle of the lawyer Ohio.”
When adding the further significance of public trust in the judiciary, the main judge said that the Supreme Court is organizing his own events to act with the 250th anniversary of signing the declaration of independence next year.
This includes exhibits on women and demonstrations of basic documents, such as the Declaration of Independence and the Ohio Constitution.
The Supreme Court building also runs trips after hours, and the judges conduct oral arguments in locations outside the site.
She encouraged lawyers and judges in the whole condition to get involved in society’s education in the government unit, through organized events and even visits to schools.
“All civic education, no matter how small, how big, it is an act promoting and restoring trust and this is a gigantic step forward to keep judicial independence into the future,” said Kennedy.
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