Legal Opinion
Inquiry Concerning Judge Christian Coomer
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided August 16, 2023No. S21Z0595PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
316 Ga. 855
FINAL COPY S21Z0595. INQUIRY CONCERNING JUDGE CHRISTIAN COOMER. PER CURIAM. In our system of separated powers, each branch of state government secures compliance with its decisions in different ways. Alexander Hamilton famously put it this way in Federalist No. 78: “The executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword of the community. The legislature not only commands the purse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated. The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction…
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