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Recently I wrote about the importance of the diversity of judges in the Rhode Island courts with particular focus on potential nominees for the Rhode Island Supreme Court.
At the time of that article, there was just one vacancy on the Court due to Justice Indeglia’s retirement. But shortly thereafter, another vacancy occurred thereby changing the calculus of who the governor might nominate for senate approval of now two nominees to the Court.
Too many of our fellow Rhode Islanders are relegated to the fringes of society. They feel at the mercy of institutions which, at best, treat them like fungible cogs in a labyrinthian machine. This not only strips their spirit but their humanity.