The Georgia Supreme Court has overruled the elite group that oversees the state’s judges on a holding regarding ethical judicial conduct.
Judges who handle civil litigation and misdemeanors—through the Georgia Council of State Court Judges—have challenged their own watchdog group—the Judicial Qualifications Commission—over a ruling saying judges could not file friend of the court briefs. The JQC held in 2014 that such amicus briefs in cases before any court would violate the judicial code of conduct. The judges and the JQC battled before the high court during oral arguments in 2015. The judges suggested their overseers were overreaching. The JQC argued the high court had no jurisdiction to do anything about it.
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