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Committee advances bill to create legislative panel to review judicial independence
Summary
HB 8 40 would create a nine-member interim committee to investigate judicial independence and the quality of rulings and includes a $400,000 appropriation for dissemination; opponents said it risks separation-of-powers conflicts and is redundant with prior interim work.
House Bill 8 40, introduced by Representative Lucas Schubert, would establish a nine-member interim legislative committee to investigate the ‘‘independence and the quality of the rulings’’ of district and supreme court judges, and would appropriate $400,000 for the biennium to support that work and the dissemination of findings. Schubert said the committee would terminate…
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