Posted on 06/13/2002 9:47:52 AM PDT by Constitution Day
NORTH CAROLINA REPUBLICAN PARTY
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 12, 2002
State Senate Democrats Slash Judicial Support Staff in Retaliation for Redistricting Outcome
Superior Court Judge Jenkins' District “Recombined” With Another to Demote Him, Eliminate His Assistant’s Job
(RALEIGH) – The North Carolina Senate Subcommittee on Justice and Public Safety yesterday released a proposed budget that retaliates against both the Superior Court Judge and State Supreme Court Justices that recently ruled against the Democrat leadership in the redistricting lawsuit that resulted in two sets of Democrat-drawn redistricting plans being ruled unconstitutional.
The proposal from Sen. Allen Wellons’ (D-Johnston County) six-member subcommittee effectively strips Johnston County Superior Court Judge Knox Jenkins, Jr. from his position as a Senior Resident Superior Court Judge and eliminates the position of his assistant by combining fast-growing Johnston County with Lee and Harnett Counties to form one judicial district.
In addition, Sen. Wellons’ five Democrat and one Republican subcommittee sliced through the already-thin ranks of support staff at the N.C. Supreme Court. The proposal eliminates one of the two law clerks assigned to each Justice to provide crucial research assistance and support for the incredibly complex and far-reaching cases that reach the state’s highest court each year. Also eliminated would be the administrative assistant to the Chief Justice and the two-person Public Information office that responds to all citizen and media inquiries for the $397 million, 5,469-employee Administrative Office of the Courts.
“Democrat leaders in the State Senate have once again shown their true colors by making a blatantly partisan retaliatory strike,” said Bill Cobey, Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party. “When they couldn’t win on the merits in court to get their rigged legislative districts, they chose to attack through the budget process the Superior Court Judge and Supreme Court Justices who stood up to them to defend the North Carolina Constitution.”
“This is one of the most corrupt and dirty tactics ever engineered against our state judiciary, and we have Marc Basnight, Tony Rand, and Allen Wellons to blame for endangering the core functions of the courts,” said Cobey.
“There should now be no question in anyone’s mind that corrupt Senate Democrats will stop at nothing to retain the political power and perks they have enjoyed for decades at taxpayer expense,” said Cobey.
For more information, contact Jonathan Jordan at (919) 828-6423.
Dunn Daily Record: Revenge (6/13/2002)
Raleigh News and Observer: Legislators ax judges' budgets (6/13/2002)
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Unfortunately the sheeple won't pay any attention to this crap going on, if they do they'll forget it by November.
These Ba$tard Rat's in the Legislature are shameless and nothing seems to be beneath them. We can only hope this will all blow up in their faces come election time.
MKM
The sheeple will forget this.
Of course, I am convinced that most NC blacks would vote for a Democrat even if he was a cannibal/serial rapist/murderer.
But I could be wrong.
Yeah, it ticked me off so bad I had to post it over here.
Good grief. Wusses!
Absolutely.
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