Supreme Court Justices Peggy Quince, left, and Barbara Pariente, right.
Posted on 03/09/2013 7:01:09 AM PST by WXRGina
In the wake of Gov. Rick Scott's appointment of Alan Forst to the Florida 4th District Court of Appeal, Sunshine State News has discovered that state Supreme Court Justices Barbara Pariente and Peggy Quince donated nearly $30,000 to the liberal activist group that opposed Forst's candidacy.
“I believe this is the first time in our history that two sitting Supreme Court justices have diverted campaign cash to a group that used the money to attack a fellow Florida Bar member nominated to the appellate court,” a former high-ranking government attorney tells SSN. “This action has the potential to undermine the integrity of the merit selection process.”
Forst fills the seat vacated by retiring Judge Fred Hazouri, who is Pariente's husband.
Contributor records maintained by the Florida Division of Elections show that Pariente and Quince respectively donated $23,000 and $5,922.65 of their leftover campaign monies to Democracy at Stake, less than two months after winning retention to the high court in November. Democracy at Stake was founded with the express purpose of defending the justices and their successful campaigns against critics who charged that they (along with Justice R. Fred Lewis) are left-wing judicial activists who do not interpret law according to its original public meaning.
Lewis, who had also been up for retention, donated $3,837.73 of his leftover campaign cash to Florida Law Related Education Association, a charity that develops and implements legal education programs for young people.
As SSN reported Thursday, Democracy at Stake had criticized Forst's nomination to Gov. Scott by the Judicial Nominating Commission, along with five other candidates, on the basis of Forst's lack of trial court experience and his self-identification as a “conservative.”
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One glance says it all. If Florida law allows recall of judges and the people of Floida fail to recall the judges in question; then the people of Florida deserve the resulting judicial corruption!
For rats, politics trumps all. Morals be danged!
Definition of a judge: a friend of a politician
Like merit,imparticiality, and knowledge of the law would have anything to do with quallification to be a judge.
Quince & Pariente are what puts the “DUH” in FloriDUH.
The public had a chance to vote ‘em out but didn’t.
More “DUH” for FlorDUH.
[Alan] Forst fills the seat vacated by retiring Judge Fred Hazouri, who is Pariente's husband. Contributor records maintained by the Florida Division of Elections show that Pariente and Quince respectively donated $23,000 and $5,922.65 of their leftover campaign monies to Democracy at Stake, less than two months after winning retention to the high court in November. Democracy at Stake was founded with the express purpose of defending the justices and their successful campaigns against critics who charged that they (along with Justice R. Fred Lewis) are left-wing judicial activists who do not interpret law according to its original public meaning.
It’s pretty crummy dealings, these leftist rats.
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