The State Bar of Georgia has decided not to campaign against a proposed constitutional amendment that would abolish the state’s judicial watchdog agency as an independent agency and give the state Legislature the sole authority to re-create it.
The bar’s decision has the approval of the Supreme Court of Georgia, which oversees the practice of law in the state and has final review authority over disciplinary recommendations made by the state Judicial Qualifications Commission, State Bar President Robert Kauffman said in a letter sent Friday to the bar’s board of governors.
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