|
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
|
South Carolina Legislature Targets ‘Independent’ Judiciary… Again
Powerful lawyer-legislators seek to remove independent justice and replace him with one of their own…
9 comments
That drunk frat boy never should have been elected in the first place.
Corrupt SC lawyer legislators are always scheming. We saw how they weaseled out of fixing this situation last year and all the others just fell into place. We need a major clean out.
Nothing but the good ole boy system
As someone who has been interested in judicial reform, I have to say Speaker Lucas would be a welcomed addition to the SC Supreme Court. My friends in the legal community say he is a brilliant and one of the best legal minds in the state. I get the lawyer-legislator argument, but it does seem to be a great thing if you have someone who has actually written law sitting in a judicial chair. Why wouldn’t we want the best and brightest? I certainly doubt someone on the outside of the judiciary is going to tell Speaker Lucas what to do or inside, for that matter.
Judges only have the legal authority to enforce and determine, not ‘write’ law.
More of a corrupt system looking out for their own. They all knew Lucas was shooting for a Supreme court job when he left. It’s all a good ole boy plan. It is time for citizens to take back control from a corrupt legislature.
The notoriously corrupt self policing SC Judicial system was rattled when a long time dirty deeds state judge was finally taken down.
She was removed from office by a determination of the Judicial Merit Selection Commission at the end of her last term. Behind the curtains, the FBI was watching, too. Dozens of complaints were lined up and ready to file that would cause lots of black eyes if she remained a bench warmer.
Evil must be rooted out. It takes the courage of a lion to stand up in it’s face.
Now I’m worried. It seems like special interests groups are expressing their views at the cost of the judicial system. So, the end goal is not to attract the best and brightest to the bench out of desire to serve? Maybe it’s to have public elections so the person who barely graduated law school and passed the bar gets elected because his parents put millions into a campaign. No thanks. I think too much of my company to subject myself or it to a mediocre judicial system. Reform is good, but the current options are not. I hear people propose gubernatorial appointments or nominations and they literally think politics wouldn’t be involved. Please. Check the donor list! Our system is not perfect, but it is better than the other options. The question is how to make it better not worse. Electing the best and brightest is a good start.
Public elections by the people, only. Time to compel that right and clean out the good old boy country club mentality. Hundreds of thousands of signs and flyers, thousands of protestors in front of the Statehouse and the homes of the skanks will be a good start.