Posted on 11/21/2017 6:14:34 AM PST by Brilliant
Gov. Rick Scott is moving to remove Florida Supreme Court Justice Barbara Pariente from a legal challenge to his judicial appointment power...
The motion also refers to statements made by Pariente while campaigning for retention... “A vote ‘yes’ will be a vote to retain me and the other two justices … A vote ‘no’ will give Gov. Scott the right to make his appointments, which will result in partisan political appointments.”
“Gov. Scott strongly believes that all Floridians deserve judges that are impartial, fair and non-partisan...”
“Justice Pariente’s past remarks cast grave doubt on her ability to take an objective...”
Progressive groups claim Scott doesn’t have authority to appoint three new Supreme Court justices on the last day of his term. The openings are caused by the mandatory retirements for the court’s liberal-leaning trio of Justices R. Fred Lewis, Pariente and Peggy A. Quince.
The Governor’s Office had filed a records request for a piece of paper on the bench to which Pariente and Labarga were ostensibly referring during their exchange. That document turned out to be the current membership list of the Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission...
Moments after the argument ended, Labarga can... be heard on a recording... saying what sounds like, “…anything on there, Panuccio.” Jesse Panuccio... is a member of the Supreme Court JNC.
Pariente then can be heard saying what sounds like “crazy.” Nordby said that was “an apparent reference either to Gov. Scott or to (his) appointees to the Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission...”
That’s followed by Labarga: “Izzy Reyes is on there, he’ll listen to me.” JNC member Israel U. Reyes is... one of four members nominated to the nine-member commission by The Florida Bar; the others are appointed by the governor...
(Excerpt) Read more at floridapolitics.com ...
Exactly where are any such persons to be found? Living in a cave? If they were not partial to the appointing individuals point of view, they wouldn't be appointed in the first place. That's OK when the point of view in question is adherence to constitutional principles, but that's getting more and more rare, even among our own.
I remember her from Bush v. Gore. More importantly I know someone who clerked for her. She is everything you would expect from a leftist judge. She tells her clerks, “here is my decision (before so much as reading a brief) now put something together to justify it.” On top of it all she is a diva.
I voted “no” on all Florida Supreme Court justices that were on the ballot. I always do. I don’t want judges in office any longer than need be. That lifetime appointment/tenure thing has proven itself useless.
Parentie was one of the Kangaroo fake justices involved in the 2000 Florida election debacle.
Parientie.
I memorized everyone of them. I said Never Forget. And I haven’t
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