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Massachusetts' Charlie Baker brings back retired judges to fire up what critics call 'eviction machine'

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Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is rehiring 15 retired judges to fire up what critics call the "eviction machine," according to reports.

The retired judges are being brought back to court as the state faces a backlog of cases regarding its sweeping eviction ban that passed in April as part of the governor's coronavirus emergency declaration.The ban, set to end on Saturday, halted all eviction and foreclosure court proceedings amid the pandemic. "The wheels of the eviction machine are spinning and the programs and processes that were supposed to make it fairer for tenants are not in place," Lewis Finfer, co-director of the Massachusetts Communities Action Network, told the Boston Herald.

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