Georgia’s courts, district attorneys and other judicial agencies are bracing for a 25 percent cut to their June budgets after an unofficial opinion from the office of Attorney General Thurbert E. Baker said that Gov. Sonny Perdue had the authority to cut funding for the judicial and legislative branches of the government.
In a May 26 letter to the director of the Office of Planning and Budget, Trey Childress, the AG’s office said that the judicial and legislative branches are not exempt from the Georgia Constitution’s requirement that spending remain within the limits of existing revenue, even if they are generally protected from oversight by the governor’s office.
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