Law360: Conn. High Court Pick Faces Praise, Criticism In Legal Circles
This excerpt is from a piece that originally ran on January 30, 2025.
In August, PPP, the Connecticut Pro-People Judiciary Coalition, Alliance for Justice, Lambda Legal and other organizations wrote a letter to Lamont imploring him to nominate a woman of color from a professionally diverse background to the Connecticut Supreme Court.
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The Alliance for Justice, a progressive group focused on the courts, called Lamont’s selection of Judge Bright “a disappointing reinforcement of the status quo” given his background and that white men continue to be overrepresented on the bench.
“The people of Connecticut would be much better served by a fresh, people-centered perspective on their highest court, someone with a lifetime of experience fighting for Connecticut’s working people,” Vasu Abhiraman, the Helen Rosenthal Building the Bench Director at Alliance for Justice, said in a statement. “We know there are incredibly talented and qualified former public defenders, civil rights attorneys, workers’ rights attorneys, and others who could capably serve on Connecticut’s highest court. Gov. Lamont missed an opportunity to do better here, and the legislature would be wise to reject this pick and force him to do so.”