Rickey Nelson Jones v. Mary Ellen Barbera, Chief Judge, Court of Appeals of Maryland

Was the United States Constitution violated when the highest court in Maryland supported the lower courts’ decisions to [i] apply federal statutory discrimination law without considering its language and legislative history, [ii] rely on federal courts that overlooked the federal statute’s language and legislative history, and [iii] not address the only question in Petitioner’s case, namely, “Is it unconstitutional for the State of Maryland, via its Judicial Branch (commingling with the Executive Branch), to sponsor a process that has [i] historically and statistically excluded qualified non-Caucasians from the circuit court for Anne Arundel County at 99.97% and [ii] engaged in a race-focused evaluation of Petitioner in order to exclude him from recommendation to the Governor when he was imminently more objectively qualified than the Caucasians recommended and appointed to the bench?”