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Sunday, December 06, 2009
Courts - More on "New recusal rules for Mich. Supreme Court under fire"
Updating this ILB entry from Dec. 1st, a column by Brian Dickerson of the Detroit Free Press today begins:
Can the back-biting, name-calling and playground-level cruelty that pervades Michigan's highest court really get any worse?State Supreme Court Justice Maura Corrigan thinks so.
"The current philosophical and personal divisions on this court are no more than a mild case of acne compared to the cancerous vitriol sure to spew from justices' pens" now that the court's new, mostly Democratic majority has begun to flex its muscles in earnest, Corrigan wrote in a despairing dissent the day before Thanksgiving.
" 'Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand,' " she added ominously, quoting from the Gospel according to Matthew.
The immediate source of Corrigan's consternation is a new rule that permits the full state Supreme Court to decide whether an individual justice whose impartiality has been challenged in a particular case should be disqualified from participating in that case.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on December 6, 2009 05:19 PM
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