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State’s Attorney Bates should keep these 2 units
Early last week Ivan Bates was sworn in as the new state’s attorney in Baltimore City. His first announced change to the office once headed by Marilyn Mosby was to […]
Editorial Advisory Board: News organizations need to get involved in rule discussion
On Jan. 6, 2023, the Supreme Court of Maryland unanimously referred a proposed rule on the distribution and broadcast of official criminal trial audio recordings back to the Maryland Judiciary […]
Editorial Advisory Board: Allow citation of unreported opinions
On Dec. 14, 2022, the names of Maryland’s appellate courts changed pursuant to a constitutional amendment approved by Maryland’s voters in the 2022 General Election. However, one vestige of the […]
Editorial Advisory Board: When guns harm democracy
The Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller considered the Second Amendment to be an offshoot of Anglo-American common law. And as such, Heller made clear that the government […]
Editorial Advisory Board: Mayor Scott did the right thing
We’d like to put our faith in a government that is doing what’s best for us, or in our best interest; public administrators — politicians — are ethically bound to […]
Editorial Advisory Board: It’s time to advance leaf-blower bill
Maryland House Bill 934, phasing out the sale and use of gas-powered leaf blowers in Maryland, was pulled by its sponsors in the last legislative session. There was opposition to […]
Editorial Advisory Board: The NextGen bar exam
It’s coming. Beginning next fall, every student entering Maryland law schools is likely to take a Next Generation Bar Examination following graduation. In fact, there are some students already in […]
Editorial Advisory Board: Supporting the public defender’s office
Recently, the Association for the Public Defender of Maryland, the Maryland State Bar Association, and the Maryland Office of the Public Defender gathered to celebrate the MOPD’s first 50 years. […]
Editorial Advisory Board: The Brittney Griner case
On Oct. 25, 2022, a Russian court rejected Brittney Griner’s appeal for an unwarranted 9½ year sentence after she pled guilty to attempting to enter Russia while possessing vape cartridges […]
Editorial Advisory Board: Let’s reconsider ranked-choice voting for Maryland
Nearly four years ago, this board took the position that a proposed bill to allow Baltimore City “to establish open primary elections or ‘ranked choice’ voting for primary and general […]
Editorial Advisory Board: Baltimore police should make full use of new technologies
We are in a transition phase regarding policing in America. Throughout the history of policing, much of the citizen and officer contact has been by way of face-to-face interactions requiring […]
Editorial Advisory Board: Questions for Md. GOP nominees
Dan Cox, the Republican nominee for governor of Maryland, not only is an acolyte of former President Donald Trump, but chartered buses to take protesters to the Capitol on Jan. […]
