Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-08-06 19:49:38.353967+00
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Taylor, C.J.
(concurring). I concur in the order denying the stay. I write separately to state that I and my colleagues joining in this order cannot respond to Justice Weaver’s selective and misleading disclosures of our conference deliberations and internal memorandums because we view her disclosure as a violation of Administrative Order No. 2006-8, and a breach of this Court’s deliberative process. We have struggled with this matter for months and, by order dated December 20, 2006, seek public comment on how the integrity of this Court’s deliberative process can be maintained in the light of a justice who feels no obligation to respect the confidentiality that has always characterized the deliberations of this Court, the United States Supreme Court, and every other appellate court of the United States. It must be noted that, despite the fact that a justice of this Court has now engaged, and continues to engage, in the unprecedented act of revealing deliberative confidences, every word of every statement of hers has been made public exactly as she has written it.
I repeat again the questions that the Court has posed to the public for consideration at our public hearing on January 17, 2007: Should AO 2006-8, which formally establishes the deliberative privilege rule, be retained and, if it is retained, what means of enforcement or sanction, if any, are properly adopted in response if a justice violates it?
Corrigan, Young, and Markman, JJ. We join the statement of Chief Justice Taylor.