Petition of Blake

The issue raised in the instant appeal requires that we harmonize the constitutional scheme conferring administrative and supervisory authority over the judicial system in this Court with the concurrent constitutional grant of administrative and supervisory power vested in the president judges of the various inferior courts within the unified judicial system. Article V, section 10 invests in this Court a “general supervisory and administrative authority over all the courts and justices of the peace____” See Article V, § 10(a). The Schedule to the judicial article, section 16(f), provides for…