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Title: State Ex Rel New Mexico Judicial Standards Commissions V. Espinosa
Author : In the Supreme Court of the State of New Mexico
Release Date : January 02, 2003
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 100 KB

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¶1 Petitioners, members of the Judicial Standards Commission (Commission), filed a petition for a writ of quo warrantor with this Court, seeking to stop Governor Bill Richardson from removing the six lay members of the Commission and replacing them with new gubernatorial appointees. We issued a stay of any further business while we determined whether the Governor has the authority to remove prior gubernatorial appointees to the Commission. We hold that Article V, Section 5 of the New Mexico Constitution grants the governor the right to remove and replace lay members of the Commission. We therefore deny the petition for the writ and lift the stay of Commission business.