In the final hours of this year’s legislative session, lawmakers scrapped a proposed budget for the judicial branch that Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears had said was unconstitutional.
A joint House-Senate committee on Friday rejected sweeping budget cuts and a reorganization of the judicial branch that had been approved by the Senate earlier in the week. The Senate’s version of the budget for the upcoming fiscal year essentially would have eliminated the Judicial Council of Georgia and transferred the council’s duties to five new programs. The Senate also had approved eliminating the Institute for Continuing Judicial Education, requiring judges to pay for their own training; and had approved cutting $146,408 from the Office of Dispute Resolution’s budget.
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