" I can't think of anything more important in today's society than to defend the Judiciary."

In this Amici podcast, former Presiding Justice Rolando T. Acosta of the Appellate Division, First Department, explains how growing up under a dictatorship where the judiciary was complicit in, rather than a force against, injustice, fueled his passion for judicial independence from political pressure.

Transcript: https://ww2.nycourts.gov/sites/default/files/document/files/2023-10/Judge%20Acosta%20final.pdf