Holding court
When Chief Justice Christine Durham spoke at the rededication of the Utah Capitol, it was appropriate, she said, that each of the three branches of government have a spot in the building.
"The balance and proportion of this physical place mirror the balance and proportion that we expect from constitutional government," Durham said. "It is no accident that this building contains places where all three branches of government -- the Legislature, the Executive, and the Judicial -- deliberate."
Memo to Justice Durham: Don't get too comfortable with that arrangement just yet.
There seems to be a bit of a struggle over who should get control over the office space behind the old Supreme Court chambers -- the court or the Senate.
Sen. Curt Bramble, R-Provo, has introduced legislation that would settle the matter, not surprisingly giving the disputed turf to the Senate.
Bramble's bill would give the Senate control over all of the court's old office space in the Capitol during the general session, any special sessions and on interim days. The rest of the year it would be "shared with the Supreme Court as scheduled through the Secretary of the Senate."
-- Robert Gehrke
4:40 PM
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2 Comments:
Chief Justice Durham likes to play the "non-partisan" card every chance she gets. However, after seeing her in action (away from the media, I might add), I can only surmise that the CJ's "Chief" goals are of an ultimately political nature.
Durham is a capable jurist, as most judges are, but she is also an unabashed Democrat, with ultra-liberal leanings, who sees fit to try to enforce her politics on "non-partisan" bodies.
Unfortunately for her, some of us have seen through her veil of "non-partisanship" and have sent her and her left-wing ideologues to the woodshed.
Gee, you'd think if Gayle Ruzicka was going to leave a blog post, she'd at least be proud enough to sign her name ;-)
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