Connecticut Post: Raheem Mullins nominated to be Connecticut’s chief Supreme Court justice
This excerpt is from a piece that originally ran on August 29, 2024.
Shortly after the nomination, a coalition of non-profit groups including the Alliance for Justice, the American Constitution Society, Lambda Legal, and the Connecticut League of Conservation Voters, in a letter to Lamont, asked for more diversity on the high bench. “Despite gains in recent years, a Black woman has still never sat on the Connecticut Supreme Court,” said the group. “And as the UConn Law chapter of the People’s Parity Project reported in 2023, the state bench is heavily skewed toward former prosecutors and corporate attorneys, with former public defenders, legal aid, labor, environmental, and plaintiffs’ attorneys significantly underrepresented.”