Andrew Cohen has provided a dismaying glimpse of legislation in Tennessee that would gut state Supreme Court control over administrative functions of the judiciary.  Mr. Cohen cited Justice at Stake for expertise about the issue.

“There’s a reason no other state in the country has such a system,” Bert Brandenburg, JAS executive director, told Cohen for an article in The Week, a news magazine. “It denies the courts the most basic of administrative functions and seeks to make our courts of law answer to politicians instead of the law.”

Cohen called the legislation, which would transfer the administrative functions of the judiciary to the comptroller of the treasury, a “big ball of scorn for the state’s judiciary.”

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