The author and shepherd of the constitutional amendment to abolish the state judicial watchdog agency and give the state Legislature sole authority to recreate it said Wednesday that the enabling legislation currently in place is being rewritten.

Rep. Wendell Willard, a Sandy Springs lawyer who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, said the legislation now in place that dramatically reconfigures the state Judicial Qualifications Commission is already being rewritten by a small committee chaired by state Supreme Court Justice David Nahmias. Nahmias is the high court’s liaison to the JQC.

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