The defendants remain in prison; justice is delayed, if not denied.
When that doesn't happen, court seats go unfilled, cases get backed up and justice is delayed for people going before the courts.
The Magna Carta provides that "to no one will we refuse or delay, right or justice". Yet justice is delayed and denied in the U.S. immigration system -- sometimes for years, sometimes forever -- and this problem substantially contributes to the U.S. unauthorized population.
As we've shown, while Democrats in 2007-2008 fulfilled their responsibility to confirm circuit and district court judges, Republicans in 2015-2016 nonlynly confirmed judges at a sluggish pace, they let judicial emergencies (an official designation in which judges are so swamped that justice is delayed) rapidly rise.
And we march with the confidence that, as Dr. King espoused, "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice". Though justice has been delayed, it will not forever be denied.
"Justice that is delayed is not justice," Mr. Pesántez said.
Justice may be delayed but when the people open the floodgates of freedom, "justice (not blood) will run down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream" and wash out the wreckage of thugtatorship into the sea.
"I was just sorry justice will be delayed".
So there we were; justice had been delayed but not, in the end, denied.
If the Legislature does not act now, justice could be delayed for years.
