House panel can stop investigating Nuss now

Now that Kansas Supreme Court Justice Lawton Nuss has been admonished by the Commission on Judicial Qualifications, it’s hard to argue with the call by state Rep. Jim Ward, D-Wichita, for the House panel investigating the Nuss matter to give it up. “Now we have all the facts. At this point, what else can you do? Why would we spend money to continue to beat this dead horse?” Ward asked in the Topeka Capital-Journal. The judicial ethics panel also was able to hear from the senators involved in Nuss’ inappropriate conversation about the school finance case, something the House panel hasn’t been able to do because of senators’ resistance on constitutional grounds. Ward also said that despite several weeks of campaigning in his district, “I’ve not heard one comment about this outside the dome.” Enough.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

3 Comments

  1. TRACY
    Posted August 24, 2006 at 10:28 am | Permalink

    Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy……Ernest Benn

  2. CapnAmerica
    Posted August 24, 2006 at 11:52 am | Permalink

    It’s just like the Republicans said about Clinton–stop with all this scandal mongering and Starr investigation.

    40 million dollars and 8 years! Enough is enough!

    That’s exactly what they said, remember?

    (heavy sarcasm)

  3. sotheysaid
    Posted August 25, 2006 at 7:27 pm | Permalink

    Nuss was an attorney before he was a judge. Lawyer 101 tells you not to talk about a case and that you do not view evidence or testimony that is not submitted in court.

    So you have to ask the question: why did Nuss not know this before he had lunch? Should the clients Nuss represented as an attorney check and see who he spoke to about their cases? If it did it as a judge he probably did it as an attorney.

    He is not competent enough to be a judge let alone a Supreme Court Judge. This was not just a minor mistake.