Court Opinion

ID: 9610830
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 03:47:58.138806+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:03:05.202568
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BISTLINE, Justice,
concurring in the result.
Because my own study of Idaho history and case law convinces me that I.C. § 19-4115, originally enacted by the territorial legislature in 1887 and first codified as R. S. 7459, is inapplicable to state officials, a district judge being such,1 and that that section never applied to the territorial judges, attorneys general, or governors, I have not joined the Court’s opinion, but concur in the holding that constitutional provisions for removal of judges or proceedings initiated through the judiciary do provide the appropriate avenues for the relief which Mr. Pittam is seeking.

. In Rankin v. Jauman, 4 Idaho 53, 61, 36 P. 502, 504 (1894), with Hawley & Reeves for appellant and George Ainslie and W. E. Borah for respondent, it was stated:
“The constitution makes provisions for the removal of state officers by impeachment, and leaves the proceedings for the removal of other civil officers to be provided for by the legislature.”