Court Opinion

ID: 9661356
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 22:36:37.720492+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:27.757185
License: Public Domain

Souris,. J.
(dissenting). I share Mr. Justice Black’s abhorrence of executive or legislative interference .with duties exclusively the obligation of the *61judicial department and Ms conclusion that the activities of the governor and the Democratic party chairman in matters directly related to this pending case give our divided decision the appearance that our members have bowed to partisan influences. However, I do not believe we further the cause of judicial independence by pronouncing premature denunciatory judgment against such activities and their authors based solely upon newspaper accounts and absent any effort on our part independently to determine the actual facts involved. Of primary concern to me are the circumstances by which the judicial report we ordered Judge Coleman to make for submission to this Court was disclosed to the .governor before'the Justices had been advised even of its existence. I suggest, respectfully, that our first order of business after release of these opinions should be determination of such circumstances pursuant to the procedures specified in GCB 1963, 930. - Subject to the foregoing, I concur in Justice Black’s opinion.
Kavanagh, J., concurred with Souris, J.