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: The GavelMI High Court Rebukes Former Justice
By Peter Hardin
During a heated election season, a former Michigan Supreme Court justice surprised observers when she disclosed a partial transcript she had made from a secretly recorded conference with her fellow justices.
Today, the high court issued a letter censuring former Justice Elizabeth Weaver for her actions. It was signed by five of seven justices on the bench, according to a Detroit Free Press article. The letter said, ?It is truly a sad day when this Court is forced to censure a former colleague.?
Former Justice Weaver (in photo) contended the partial transcripts reflected inappropriate language used by Justice Robert Young. She said he ought not be reelected. Michigan voters reelected him this month (see Gavel Grab).
The justices signing the letter released today said the other justices didn’t know that recordings were made, and they would not have permitted it. The court’s internal deliberations, they wrote, are private for ?the same reasons juries deliberate in private. We wish to be able to speak freely, explore differing views, take straw voters and change our position on matters without concern for how sensitive matters might be construed in the media.”
Three of the five justices signing the letter were Republicans, and two were Democrats. Former Justice Weaver, a Republican, did not always agree with her fellow Republican justices.
A state Supreme Court spokeswoman, Marcia McBrien, said there were no consequences as a result of the letter.
Full post as published by The Gavel on November 22, 2010 (boomark / email).
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