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Last Updated on Friday, 14 March 2008 10:02 Written by rslcpol Friday, 14 March 2008 10:02
The state House Judiciary Committee yesterday amended a bill extending the mandatory retirement age for judges from 70 to 80 years old to make it apply to future judges, defusing a political confrontation with Gov. Linda Lingle.
State lawmakers have said the bill, a proposed constitutional amendment, is about ending age discrimination that arbitrarily forces experienced judges off the bench.
But the Lingle administration believes it was an attempt to restrict the governor’s ability to replace state Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald T.Y. Moon, who reaches the mandatory retirement age in 2010, the last year of Lingle’s second term.