Co-founder
Co-founder Louis Peck is the founding editor of National Journal’s Congress Daily, who, over nearly two decades, built the publication into essential reading for members of Congress and their staffs, along with lawyers, lobbyists, businesses, advocates and federal officials. He is now a contributing editor for Bethesda Magazine, providing comprehensive and sophisticated coverage of Montgomery County politics, and is a contributor to the Almanac of American Politics.
Workgroup created by Maryland’s judiciary to study how best to choose judges was originally scheduled to present its report to the General Assembly at the outset of this year’s session.
‘The partisan election process is a decidedly imperfect vehicle for assessing the performance of a judge,’ jurist tells workgroup on judicial selection.
Workgroup will soon begin deliberating on recommendations on how the state’s judicial selection process might be modified.
Wicomico has been without a permanent county executive since the summer of 2020, when Republican Bob Culver died.
Creation of the workgroup follows years of debate in Annapolis over the wisdom of requiring circuit court judges to run in partisan elections after being appointed.
In contrast to two years ago — when appointed circuit court judges in three major jurisdictions around the state failed to survive the process…
Acting Wicomico County Executive John D. Psota — appointed on an interim basis to fill the position following the July 2020 death of County…
The Democratic Attorneys General Association announced Tuesday that it was “thrilled” to endorse Rep. Anthony Brown to be the next attorney general for the…
If you were looking for a Democratic elected official or high-profile candidate Thursday night, chances are you would have found them at the Maryland…
Sixteen months after his death, more than 200 family members, associates and friends of the late Sen. Paul Sarbanes gathered for an affectionate tribute…