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Nancy Mace Pushes Judicial Reform In South Carolina
Congresswoman and prospective gubernatorial candidate vows to “cut the General Assembly’s puppet strings on judges.”
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Is she still an investor in your company? Is she paying you to advise her politically?
Nancy Mace is not pushing anything, and neither are you. Your schtick is this “judicial reform” – but you do not have any real reporting on why it is a problem. All you do is make things up and repeat them. I would tell you to write a series laying out specific examples of why we need to pick new judges and pick them a different way, but you and I both know you do not have any actual examples.
Mace has not a single original thought in her head, so this sounds like a good bandwagon to jump on. But it says a lot more about her than the South Carolina judicial system.
The real problem coming is how you are going to suck up to both Wilson and Mace while they destroy each other. And meanwhile we all sit here waiting for our new Governor, same as the old Governor.
I’ll give you examples. Real ones.
Date- certain trials with long-standing scheduling orders get trial dates booted downfield because one of the lawyers in the case is a lawyer-legislator who gives no real reason to the court to justify the request, but it is granted nonetheless. Meanwhile, in the exact same scheduling conference, a female lawyer in a different case stands up and asks for a continuance because her husband is returning from a 9 month deployment to Iraq, and the judge denies her request. The gasp in the courtroom from the other lawyers is audible. I was there – saw the whole thing.
Tort cases in notoriously pro-plaintiff districts that were subject to mandatory mediation orders somehow move 80 places forward on the trial roster overnight, and when defense counsel points out that the mediation has not occurred yet, the judge still slates it for trial because the lawyer legislator “needs it done” because the session is starting in 3 weeks and he still has to take his family vacation before it starts. Or, conversely a case is coming up for trial, has been mediated twice, but the lawyer-legislator or JMC lawyer asks for another mediation because he’s obviously not ready to try the case. Judge grants the requests and orders a 3rd mediation.
Of course, you’re going to demand I name the judge and the parties, then call me a coward when I don’t. I’m not stupid. and I don’t care. I know what the food chain looks like in our court system and where we non-lawyer legislators and judicial merit committee members stand in it – several notches above the rest of us. I might be a wolf on the food chain, but I know not to poke the bear.
I am not going to ask you to name names and call you a coward. I know this will come as a surprise, but all of you on here attacking me personally and calling me names does not really get to me. I understand your point about remaining anonymous (for this specific issue). It is my choice not to, and your choice to. That is fine.
I can understand your examples are frustrating. They are not the ones this blog is always whining about, because they involve scheduling. Will lies repeatedly to get the citizens to think judges are letting criminal run wild, which is just made up.
Unfortunately, I have had all those things in your comment happen with both lawyer-legislators and non-legislators. That is more of a docket management problem than some deep flaw in our current sitting judges. It is not just JMC or other lawyer-legislators that get that treatment, it is all different kinds of lawyers.
The current Chief of the Supreme Court seems focused on docket management and is trying to create tools to avoid these problems. Maybe it will work, maybe it will not. But Will (and Alan Wilson and I guess now Nancy Mace) are not talking about docket issues. They don’t like certain rulings, but they seem to struggle to understand them. That is my major complaint. Docket management is a far broader problem than the lawyer-legislator issue. Selling it to people the wrong way is misleading and Will is all in on that fraud.
Batshit crazy.