IAALS Executive Director Rebecca Love Kourlis penned an Informed Opinion about a recent threat to judicial independence in Oklahoma.

Simply stated, judicial independence means that one branch of government is not subject to the will of the majority. Yet, over the last two weeks in Oklahoma, the executive and legislative branches maneuvered to undermine the state Supreme Court.

If the judiciary can be bullied by the other two branches, is our Constitution effectively safeguarded? Judicial independence is the keel on the boat, Kourlis suggests. Without it, we drift and perhaps even capsize.

Read the Opinion here.