State Rep. Christian Coomer says that ending the tenure of Georgia’s judicial watchdog agency as constitutionally independent is not about giving well-connected judges a way to tip the scales in their favor should they face scrutiny for possible ethical violations. Rather, it’s a response to what he believes was an abuse of authority two years ago by a member of the Judicial Qualifications Commission, who would later become its chairman.
Coomer claims that Cartersville attorney and former State Bar of Georgia president Lester Tate threatened a clerk for Bartow County Probate Judge Mitchell Scoggins, telling her if he didn’t get his way on behalf of his client that he, as a JQC member, would bring the investigative powers of the watchdog agency to bear on the judge.
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