The public has not yet voted on a proposed constitutional amendment to abolish Georgia’s judicial watchdog agency and give the Legislature sole authority to remake it, but a committee convened by state Supreme Court Justice David Nahmias is already rewriting legislation passed last spring that radically reconfigured the agency and made its operations more secretive.
The ad-hoc committee is not only proposing an overhaul of that legislation—passed in the final minutes of the 2016 General Assembly—but has also undertaken the first rewrite of the rules governing the state Judicial Qualifications Commission since it was created as an independent constitutional agency 40 years ago, said Athens attorney Edward Tolley in testimony before a state House committee investigating the JQC.
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