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Committee hears constitutional amendment resolution on judicial immunity and nominating appointments
Summary
Representative Laurie Van Winkle asked the House Judiciary Committee to consider a constitutional amendment resolution (HCR 3021) that would reduce judicial civil immunity in specified cases and change how judicial vacancies are filled.
Representative Laurie Van Winkle told the committee House Concurrent Resolution 3021 would amend the state constitution to remove civil judicial immunity in certain circumstances, render judgments that violate due process or the state or federal constitution void, and require vacancies on the Supreme Court or district court to be filled through a bipartisan appointment committee.
Van Winkle cited several U.S. Supreme Court decisions and recent state decisions as evidence that judges have sometimes overreached and that the judiciary should face stronger…
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