The chairman of the state Senate Judiciary Committee is sounding alarms about legislation passed by the House of Representatives that would remake the constitutionally independent judicial watchdog agency as a creature of the legislature while also launching an investigation, backed by subpoena power, of the current agency’s operations.
Sen. Josh McKoon, a Columbus Republican, told the Daily Report that the legislation—which McKoon’s counterpart, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Wendell Willard, shepherded through the House last week—is ill-advised.
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