From the Supreme Court Chamber in Springfield: As Chief Justice Rita Garman nears the end of her three-year as head of the Illinois Supreme Court, we hear about what’s changed during her tenure in making the courts more transparent. Why the Court recently ruled as unconstitutional, the effort to have political maps drawn by a nonpartisan panel ? How technology is both helping to make the courts more efficient, while creating new legal challenges within society. And how “Problem Solving Courts” were established to provide a new approach to those who cross the law due to personal problems, and not criminal intent.
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