Bruce Hopson has one year to make his mark

Bruce Hopson, the new president of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, wants the public to understand the role of government, especially the judiciary. One only has to look at the challenges facing Missouri’s Nonpartisan Court Plan or at the retention vote for the Iowa Supreme Court last year, when three judges lost their seats after a decision to allow gay marriage, to see there’s some public misunderstanding, he said. “When voters attack judges because they don’t like their opinions or when legislators don’t like judges because their opinions don’t reflect the majority view, we have a problem,” he told lawyers at a BAMSL luncheon in mid-May.

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Bruce Hopson has one year to make his mark

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