National watchdog warns that wayward Alaska magistrates are shielded from independent oversight
A national nonprofit legal watchdog organization has issued a warning about the fact that complaints against Alaska’s magistrate judges are not screened by an independent body, but by the same judges who regularly oversee their work and collaborate with
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