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Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Courts - Interesting view on issues facing the Kentucky courts

The KentuckyLawBlog.com had a long and fascinating entry Saturday that I've just spotted. It begins:

Is Lady Justice crying under that blindfold or just smarting a black eye?

Does it seem that our judiciary is being pounded by partisan politicians for an electoral process that the politicians created and our judges must live with?

A few months ago, our Supreme Court was thrust in the middle of the political maelstrom to resolve whether a senator was qualified to sit (Woodward v. Stephenson). Now, the Supreme Court is in the thick of another political battle between the attorney general and the governor regarding the merit system investigation, the grand jury, and gubenatorial pardons.

Some have claimed this is a political fight involving branches of government, other say it is nothing more than enforcement of the laws. In any event, the matter is now before our state's highest court. And no sooner had the paperwork hit the clerk's office, then we had Chief Justice Lambert and most recent appointee Justice John Roach recusing themselves with the latter giving reasons and the former (Lambert) remaining silent. Consequently, Governor/Appellant Fletcher then appointed two special justices to hear his own case.

Now, we have a non-litigant, non-party, political commentator/editor/blogger, filing a complaint with the Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission to disallow these two special justices to serve on the Supreme Court to hear a case involving the same governor to whom they had previously made financial contributions, plus one of the special justices is a sitting circuit court judge appointed to that bench by the same governor.

Take a breath. That is just the beginning of the entry.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on March 7, 2006 07:28 PM
Posted to Courts in general