Four members of the state’s judicial watchdog agency, including the Fulton County judge who is its acting chairwoman, declined invitations Thursday to appear voluntarily at a hearing conducted by a state House legislative committee investigating the agency’s operations.
Only one of the Judicial Qualifications Commission’s members—its former longtime investigator and perhaps most controversial member—testified at the third in a series of anticipated committee hearings to examine the watchdog agency’s operations before the public votes on a constitutional amendment in November to abolish it and give the legislature the authority to recreate it. That member, Richard Hyde, told legislators he is now “persona non grata” at the JQC.
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