An injustice in any tongue: Funding runs out next month on the Massachusetts account that pays for 90% of the interpreters in the courts of the state. Trials involving non-English-speaking parties will simply be put off, according to judicial planners. Nobody seems to care very much; providing interpreters is usually seen as a perk for perps. But in reality it speaks to the very core of our system of rights. This Superior Court judge, a friend of mine, is considering refusing to hear any cases because of the blatant inequality of allowing the English-speaking but not those who speak foreign tongues their day in court. Government is abdicating its responsibility to ensure equal protection under the law, in his powerful argument. Boston Globe