Opinion

I would like to make a response to last week’s Guest Column by Katherine P. LeBlanc, Esq., about the “Eliminating the language requirement for Navajo judges and justices.” Also, Boderra Joe, Navajo Times reporter because they coincide with the Judicial Branch.

A dear friend of mine has a standard question for his friends complaining about the state of education in New Mexico. He asks, “what are you going to do about it?”

In the Independent’s article titled, “Jayne misses work session on Navajo Judicial Branch, Report unveils longstanding systemic issues,” Chair Eugenia Charles-Newton was quoted as stating that “the Law and Order Committee was told 25,000 cases are currently in the system with the judicial branch