Category: Judiciary
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Judicial Runoffs!
First, Georgia Supreme Court. Justice Nahmias faces Tamela “Tammy” Adkins. Look, I know progressives are suspicious of Nahmias because he clerked for Scalia and was appointed by Perdue, but don’t fall into this trap. Ms. Adkins isn’t qualified to be on the Georgia Supreme Court. Second, Court of Appeals. Christopher McFadden and Toni Davis survived…
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Bar’s Judicial Poll
Every election year, the State Bar of Georgia sends out a judicial survey and predictably, not a lot of lawyers respond. The State Bar has around 40,000 members and 3,214 responded. The results are here and I can’t say that I disagree with the results. The lone exception being Adrienne Hunter-Strothers, who has high number…
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Teilhet as GPDSC Director
Color me shocked – Governor Perdue has appointed Rob Teilhet as Director of GPDSC. “The constitutional right to counsel is a promise to every Georgian that must be kept,” Teilhet said. “I am humbled to be a part of such important work, and I look forward to working with the Council and others to ensure…
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“We’re in trouble in Georgia.”
Yesterday’s New York Times had a depressingly bleak story cataloguing all the problems with Georgia’s chronically underfunded public defender system, in which former state Supreme Court justice Arthur Fletcher made the statement above. The article was prompted by a recent Georgia Supreme Court ruling that a death penalty defendant should have accepted the public defenders appointed for him by now-resigned…
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Court of Appeals
Justice Johnson is retiring at the end of the year and so far, there are four lawyers who have announced they are running for his seat. I could tell you about all of them, but I won’t. Christopher McFadden is, by far, the most qualified. McFadden has practiced primarily before the Court of Appeals of…