Bills would curtail authority of high court, chief

By Alan Cooper
Published: February 8, 2010

Tags: General Assembly, Justice Leroy Rountree Hassell Sr., Supreme Court of Virginia

Proposed legislation would eliminate the Virginia court system’s two top policy-making bodies, limit the authority of the executive secretary of the Supreme Court and do away with much of the Supreme Court’s authority to appoint substitute judges and supervise multi-jurisdiction grand juries. Such attempts to intrude on judicial turf crop up during every session of the ...

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