Comments on: Florida bills would provide additional funding for courts, but only if judicial immunity is retroactively ended and judicial disciplinary commission changed

By: For fourth time in five years, Florida bills would provide additional funding for courts, but only if judicial immunity is retroactively ended and judicial disciplinary commission changed » Gavel to Gavel

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:51:14 +0000

[...] 2012: SB 1526 (discussed here) [...]

By: South Carolina constitutional amendment would automatically appropriate 1% of general fund to judiciary every year » Gavel to Gavel

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:27:56 +0000

[...] in 2010 and in 2012 considered bills that would have ensured 1% of all general revenue funds to the judiciary, but only [...]

By: Maryland joins other states in considering ways to allow judicial disciplinary commission to remove judges from office for their opinions » Gavel to Gavel

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:26:05 +0000

[...] legislature is just the latest (including Florida, Minnesota, and Tennessee) that may seek to use the state’s judicial disciplinary process to [...]

By: Florida House and Senate bills tie judicial retirement benefits & funding to changes to state merit selection system » Gavel to Gavel

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:01:17 +0000

[...] I mentioned yesterday the Florida Senate plan to tie funding for the state courts to a revocation of judicial immunity and changes to the state judicial disciplinary commission. Carrying on the linkage pattern is HB 971 and the similar SB 1570. Rather than tying funding to allowing for judges to be sued personally for their decisions, the bills tie judicial retirement benefits to changes to the state’s merit selection system. [...]