Gov. Cowardly Worm Begs Lege to Protect Him From Mean Old Judge

found online by Raymond

 
From Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass:

I don’t know how Phillip Shepherd can function these days, helpless from hysterical laughter as he must be.

Tom Loftus at the Courier:

A lot of state government’s big legal cases in recent years have landed in front of Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd. And they haven’t always gone the way the governor or General Assembly want.

A Senate bill filed Friday would let Gov. Matt Bevin or other state officials avoid going before Shepherd.

Senate President Robert Stivers, upset with Shepherd’s handling of the big pension case last year, sponsored the measure, filed as Senate Bill 2. The low number indicates it’s a top priority of the Senate Republican majority.

Stivers, a Manchester Republican, complained in a floor speech Friday that all big state government cases and constitutional challenges should not be heard by judges elected from a single county.

Hey moron: State government cases are heard in the “single county” of Franklin circuit because that’s where state government exists.

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