The chairman of a special committee of the state House of Representatives opened his long-promised investigation of Georgia’s judicial watchdog agency on Thursday, two months before the public is slated to vote on a constitutional amendment that would abolish the Judicial Qualifications Commission and give the Legislature sole authority to re-create it.
In doing so, Rep. Wendell Willard, R-Sandy Springs, took issue with suggestions that the committee—and the investigation it intends to undertake—are politically motivated.
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