JUDICIAL ELECTIONS should remain nonpartisan and state judges deserve a long-awaited raise, Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears told legislators during her annual State of the Judiciary address.
During her 15-minute speech, Sears did not discuss bills submitted by Rep. Edward Lindsey, R-Atlanta, that grew out of complaints that last year’s Supreme Court race threatened judicial independence. But after her official address, Sears told reporters that she probably would not support Lindsey’s bill that would allow a lawyer to force a judge to recuse from a case if the opposing counsel or parties gave more than $500 to the judge’s campaign.
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