Since Sen. Mitch Seabaugh unveiled a plan to trim the number of superior court judges statewide to save money, judges, sheriffs and some of Seabaugh’s fellow Republicans have protested that it’s a bad idea.
Seabaugh, a Coweta County Republican, said he’s talked by phone or met in person with at least a dozen judges to discuss his idea. In those talks, according to the judges and to Seabaugh, the judges have told the lawmaker the cuts could force them to violate their constitutional duties. They have also told Seabaugh that he used the wrong metric to assess which judicial circuits should lose judges.
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