If any local judge had publicly disclosed that he or she interviewed a governor and was then appointed by that same governor to one of the most powerful positions in state government months later, many observers would undoubtedly ask questions. Those questions should not become off limits simply because the person involved is the Chief Justice of Indiana. Public trust in institutions depends on transparency and accountability. Chief Justice Rush may have a perfectly re

Nearly eight years after the Indiana Supreme Court imposed what was supposed to be a 180‑day suspension on Andrew U. D. Straw’s law license, his legal career remains wrongly frozen in procedural stasis.