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Florida Bar to Investigate Complaints of Improper Questioning of Judicial Applicants

A few days ago we wrote about the improper questions asked by Jeb Bush appointees on the Florida Judicial Nominating Commission when interviewing applicants for judgeships. Friday, a panel of the Florida Bar will hold a hearing on the matter:

A Florida Bar panel will consider this morning whether members of a judicial nominating commission appointed by Gov. Jeb Bush asked judicial candidates in Broward County questions that were sexually discriminatory or were political or religious litmus tests.

An additional incident has been reported that will be investigated:

...the [Miami Daily Business] Review has discovered one additional incident, involving a candidate who was asked during a Broward JNC interview to do a humorous impression of a black Broward judge.

We don't expect much to come of the investigation:

Bar president Miles A. McGrane III said that even if members of the 17th Judicial Circuit JNC behaved improperly, his organization "can do literally nothing about it," and that "the sole remedy is with the governor." McGrane said that even though the Bar conducted its own investigation of alleged misconduct by a JNC member three years ago, it "can't" order an investigation now because JNC members are constitutionally appointed officers.

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