May 08, 2007 08:27 PM UTC

Carol Chambers Speaks Out About the Right and the Public Need for Criticism of the Courts

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• by: tiltawhirl

a KnowYourCOURTS.com exclusive – The Post is abuzz, once again, with word that Carol Chambers is on the hotseat with John Gleason’s Attorney Deregulation Council (pun intended). A Denver Post schaudenfreud editorial) posits, “After a humiliating public censure by a disciplinary panel last December, we had hoped that suburban District Attorney Carol Chambers would fly a straight and narrow course.”  Given that Chambers is a Republican, we doubt the Post’s editorialists hoped anything of the sort.
  Chambers emailed¹ KnowYourCOURTS.com, yesterday, and had this to say:

Whether Chambers’ emails contained any veiled threat or whether her wording, “docket control problems,” was a lapse in good judgment is certainly up for subjective debate.  However, we think she got it right in defense of her past criticisms of the courts in Araphahoe County. Apparently, so, too, does Professor Monroe Freedman, writing in the Hoffstra Law Review that, “The problem is not that too many lawyers are publicly criticizing judges. Unfortunately, too few lawyers are willing to do so, even when a judge has committed serious ethical violations and should be held accountable.” Freedman, The Threat to Judicial Independence by Criticism of Judges-A Proposed Solution to the Real Problem, 25 Hofstra L. Rev. 729, 729 (1997).

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