Posted on 12/26/2007 9:11:58 AM PST by somfphite
The state Attorney General's Office is seeking to block a key witness' testimony in a lawsuit challenging 1.3 billion dollars in tax increases passed during the General Assembly's special session last month.
The Washington Times reported today that House of Delegates' chief clerk Mary Monahan is scheduled to give a deposition on Thursday in Tampa, Florida.
The plaintiffs see Monahan, who records and validates House proceedings, as a key witness in the suit that charges that the Senate took too long of a break during last month's special session without permission from the House.
But the emergency motion filed in the Court of Special Appeals yesterday by lawyers representing the state seeks to protect her from testifying. The Attorney General's Office argues that forcing Monahan to testify violates the separation of powers between the judicial and legislative branches.
A Court of Special Appeals spokesman says a three-judge panel will hear the motion, but no date has been set.
WBAL Radio
My mistake... it is Maryland AG
Requiring the testimony of a witness is a power of the judiciary, not of the legislature. Case closed.
If the plaintiffs in this case are members of the Legislature and it is obvious that Ms Monahan is part of the Legislature and this is a matter that Legislative procedures/State Constitution was violated then there is no violation of separation of powers. Now if the plaintiffs are members of the Judiciary then I could see a violations of the separation of powers.
Used to live in the Socialist State of Maryland for a number of years, but escaped to Georgia. Taxes were very high when I left and felt they would go up since the liberals had a stranglehold through Baltimore and Montgomery county. Seems I was right.
You were.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Understandable. Really it’s all the same
The administration in Annapolis is trying to remake our fair state into the blighted city on the Chesapeake.
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