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That’s the Select Committee on Judicial Accountability and Transparency.
The panel, formed this month as part of the Legislature’s response to a separation-of-powers standoff that’s ensnared all three branches of government, will “no doubt” continue to meet into the interim, Sen. Greg Hertz, the committee’s chairman, said in a meeting on Thursday.
That’s because the committee’s attempt to subpoena the entire state Supreme Court and the Supreme Court administrator as part of a wide-ranging probe into alleged impartiality and poor public records management practices yielded only mixed results: Justices appeared before the committee over Zoom this week, but only to explain why, in general, they could not hand over the cache of potentially sensitive emails requested by Republican leadership.