The chairman of the beleaguered state judicial watchdog agency has resigned, saying that “an all-out political assault” has compromised the agency’s ability to do its work “in a way that renders it totally ineffective.”
In a letter dated April 5 to the board of governors of the State Bar of Georgia that appointed him, Lester Tate said he was resigning from the seven-member Judicial Qualifications Commission. “I cannot in good conscience continue to participate in a charade that offers the promise of judicial integrity when, in truth, the actions of others have rendered the fulfillment of that promise an impossibility,” he wrote.
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