SC Supreme Court Shuffle?
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This is the kind of hinky goings-on that I like to watch…..
it is like a train wreck…
…only more expensive.
The future appointees are likely to be either past or present members of the General Assembly.
Announcing the new Chief Justice of the SC Supreme Court, …
Bobby Harrell.
He’ll obviously have a lot of experience in the judicial system by then….
“Mr Camdidate, what part of the Constitution would you change?” … Usually dislodges the bad apples.
Beatty is 62. Can’t we find someone younger? Scary stuff considering Leatherman and the new Speaker can stack the Judicial Merit Selection Commission in their own image!
“Does that mean any of them will be pro-free market, pro-liberty justices”
So you want activist judges, rather than judges who will apply the law.
Beatty is dumb as a rock and is easily influenced by others – for political reasons. Toal absolutely controls his arrogant ass now and there is none in SC more corrupt than Toal. She is addicted to power and control. Kittredge is out to lunch most of the time and will retire due to his “bad back” soon. Hearn is a politician first and judge second.
Might want to investigate some of the rumors before printing. I believe according to a White House press release that her name was withdrawn on the 18th of this month. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/18/presidential-nominations-and-withdrawal-sent-senate-0
Put Lee on the Supreme Court and let Beatty go to the federal bench. At least the federal appellate courts still have intelligent members, even if they do lean ideologically one way or the other. At least then his legal decisions can be vetted by someone with the brains to do so. Lee is a good judge. She’s considerate, intelligent, and reasonable. The Supreme Court would be lucky to have her.
I agree. Allison Lee is a professional, smart, fair and honest judge. That is why Jean Toal wants rid of her so bad and has blocked Lee’s attempts to get on the SC Supreme Court (or Court of Appeals). Beatty can’t do any real harm in a Federal appellate position and we would be rid of him. Once Toal is gone, Beatty is not going to have anyone left on the SC SC to protect him anyway.
There is no mandatory retirement age. You must only retire at 72 in order to receive the retirement system benefits that are provided for judges, solicitors and public defenders. If those benefits are not important to that person then they can stay on until death or not re-elected.
SECTION 9-8-60. Retirement; retirement allowance; disability retirement; beneficiaries of other systems.
(1) A member of the system may retire upon written application to the
board setting forth at what time, not later than the end of the calendar
year in which the member attains age seventy-two and not more than
ninety days prior nor more than six months subsequent to the execution
and filing thereof, the member desires to be retired, if the member at
the time so specified for retirement is no longer in the service of the
State, except as a member of the General Assembly or as allowed pursuant
to subsection (7), and has completed ten years of earned service as a
judge or eight years of earned service as a solicitor or circuit public
defender or was in service as a judge or solicitor on July 1, 1984, and
has either:
Beatty is a hardcore advocate for for the things he believes in, about as unobjective as a highschool mom at her daughter’s first beauy pageant, unsophisticated, below sophomoric, about as unintellectually curious as a sea urchin, as hapless foolish and apathetic as a slothful brain dead mannequin, he knows nothing about about the law or the judiciary and he’s hostile and adamant about his stupidity. In other words he’d make a great federal judge, and as good of one as he’s been a justice.