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Regaining the Public Trust: How Transparency & Ethics Can Save the U.S Supreme Court From Its Legitimacy Crisis

Randy Goldson, Winner of PMC's 2024 Law Student Writing Competition

One afternoon my Contracts professor had a memorable Socrates-like moment. For about ten minutes, he probed the class into why judicial decisions have power. The class floated several responses to see which one matched the answer the

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2017 Report & Recommendations on Improving Pennsylvania's Judicial Discipline System

PMC released this report because we perceived a need to re-examine Pennsylvania's judicial disciplinary system. Our concern stemmed from the reported misconduct of three Supreme Court justices: Joan Orie Melvin, Seamus McCaffery, and Michael Eakin, and the disciplinary cases surrounding that alleged

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2011 Report and Recommendations for Improving Pennsylvania's Judicial Discipline System

In the years preceding the publication of this report, the news was filled with many stories of Pennsylvania judges engaging in unethical behavior, violating the Code of Judicial Conduct ("the Judicial Code"), and even engaging in criminal conduct. Public trust and confidence in our courts is