Gov. Asa Hutchinson today announced the seven people he'd chosen to decide the Arkansas Supreme Court's contest of the finding that they'd violated ethics rules in action they took against Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen.
A volunteer group established to police campaigns for judicial elections is blasting a Republican group's advertising aimed at supporting David Sterling's attempt to unseat Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Courtney Goodson.
More money coming from the opaque Republican State Leadership Committee's judicial election effort in support of David Sterling, the Republican candidate attempting to unseat Justice Courtney Goodson from her nonpartisan Supreme Court seat.
The Arkansas Supreme Court issued a news release today indicating five of the seven members are challenging a finding by the Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission of an ethics violation by the court in removing Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen from cases related to the death penalty without affording him proper notice and due process. In short, the court says the commission has no jurisdiction over the court.
More evidence of the growth of overt partisanship in the Arkansas court system. Behold the program for the Baxter County Republican Party's Lincoln Day dinner.
Mailers attacking Supreme Court Justice Courtney Goodson and supporting challenger David Sterling for her court seat have begun hitting Arkansas mailboxes.
The state Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission announced today that an investigative panel had made the same adverse ethical findings against Supreme Court Justice Shawn Womack it had earlier issued against the six other justices.
A blast has been fired at Supreme Court Justice Shawn Womack's effort to influence judgeship allocations in the state, specifically his insistence that new judgeships should be created only by lopping judges off some other districts.
The majority opinion cited separation of powers in its conclusion that Griffen erred, stating that the judicial branch should not take it upon itself to review "the day-to-day actions of the executive branch."
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's Jeannie Roberts first reported news of an Arkansas Court of Appeals ruling that had the result of leaving a juvenile court judge on the state Child Maltreatment Registry.