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Friday, August 07, 2009

Ind. Gov't. - Still more on: Who should decide Indiana's position on national legal issues? Who should know?

In this ILB entry from July 27th, I wrote:

Who should decide Indiana's position on national legal issues? Who should know? These are the questions I posed in the heading to this entry. Some thoughts:
  • The attormey general in Indiana is elected, but it is not a constitutional office. At various times in the past, the law has provided that the governor appoint the attorney general.

  • The constitution distributes state government powers to three branches, the executive, legislative, and judicial. Can the general assembly create officials outside this framework and grant them powers? This question has come up a number of times in Indiana's past.

  • The attorney general and the governor currently happen to be of the same party, but that has not been so at times in the past, and it is not assured.

  • Regardless, shouldn't there be a great deal more transparency here?
The following day, July 28th, I was able to report in this entry, that Attorney General Zoeller's office had now completed preparing its response to the ILB's May 19th request. More:
In my opinion, the AG's office has done a bang-up job in putting together these tables, which they prepared in Excel and I have converted to HTML. As the ILB receives new information, it will do updates. Here are the links:
The ILB plans to keep the AG Zoeller list up-to-date, going forward (with, I hope, the continuing the cooperation of the AG's office).

To make the tables easier to find, I have now included in the links in the right column of the ILB. Take a look.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 7, 2009 11:03 AM
Posted to Indiana Government