A Rob Reversal

By Kleinheider Posted on April 18, 2008 at 10:05 am

Bill Hobbs calls out Rep. Rob Briley for a bit of hypocrisy this morning.

It seems despite his protestations about public judicial selection committee meetings, the Representative from East Nashville sponsored a bill that Hobbs says would have done the opposite:

Briley’s defense of closed-door meetings for the commission is a flip-flop from last year, when he sponsored legislation - House Bill 1338 - that would have required all meetings of the Judicial Selection Commission to be open to the public.

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Do They Really Run?

By Kleinheider Posted on at 7:50 am

Governor Phil Bredesen responds to the assertion, made by Rep. Rob Briley and others, that meetings of Judicial Selection committee be open to the public:

“I know it might be uncomfortable for a judge from now and then to have some incident in their past talked over, but, ya know, gosh, that’s the way of things in public life,” Bredesen said earlier this month. “Anybody who runs for public office, anybody who’s in an election has that kind of scrutiny.”

Then again some folks say that the retention elections that judges go through don’t really amount to “running for office.”

SEE ALSO: Stacey Campfield

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