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Alan Wilson Putting His Political Capital To Good Use
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“ongoing (executive) oversight into judicial conduct” is THE DEATH of whatever judidical independence is left.
In Israel, a younger democracy than the U.S., even the army is protesting “King” Natanayahu’s plan to reduce judicial independence. Israel does’t even have a constitution yet. One of the main elements of the social contract, sicne Jean Jacques Rousseau and his contemporaries articulated it, is separation of powers.
Executive involvement in judicial SELECTION, yes. But on-going executive supervision of judicial FUNCTION? Heck, NO.
Great article
Great article. Sc is in a judicial corruption crisis
South Carolina’s governors are term-limited; its attorneys general are not. If “ongoing (executive) oversight into judicial conduct” means the attorney general is THE “executive,” Alan Wilson becomes, not only king of South Carolina, but also its Ceasar. You see, in Ancient Rome, Ceasar had both executive and judicial powers. Remember, Saint Paul, a Jewish Roman Citizen, traveled to Rome to complain to Ceasar about having received 40 flogs minus one despite Roman Citizenship Immunity. So, not only does Alan Wilson become Ceasar, he gets to bequeath the throne to his children and grandchildren at infinitum. Sounds like the story of the Murdaughs that FITSNews is so attacking but wants repeated with a different name. Just as Alan Wilson has now proven he can convict anyone (even if innocent) he wants, FITSNews has now proven he can seep to the jury all kinds of falsehoods. God save us from the new South Carolina Ceasar and his paid propagandists.
So, the mountain labored and begat a mouse. A proposal to divide the elected legislature into first-class non-lawyer legislators and a second-class lawyer legislators who cannot FULLY exercise their legislative powers of sitting on committees does NOTHING to reform the judiciary. It also does NOTHING to even diminish the power of lawyer legislators unless you want to also bar them from VOTING on whatever judicial candidates the Judicial Merit Selection Commission (“JMSC”) puts out. And all this happened because the attorney general, ALL solicitors, and ALL elected sherifs are mad because a lawyer legislator, who happens to be a democrat, gave a criminal defendant, who happens to be rich white male, the vigorous defense to which ALL criminal defendants are entitled. That is the same “stinking thinking” diagnostic of addictions. I, for one, want to be safe from the underlings Leon Lott trains in bad driving, lying, and stealing. Weren’t Mickens (killed a Sumter elderly man in a car crash), Dan Johnson (convicted of misconduct in office) and Randy Scott (drug addict using the PTSD excuse) Leon Lott trainees? Heck, Leon Lott’s own description of a presumed-innocent detainee as a monster got that detainee killed by five other inmates at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center. Who is going to prosecute Lott himself for such reckless conduct? I want to be safe from Lott retaliating against ME for writing this.