By James O'Hagan 1. The separation of powers provides for much needed checks and balances on all government officials, and was intended to be mandatory for protecting the peoples’ freedoms as described in our United States Constitution in the second paragraph of Article I sections 6. 2. The reason we have juries and multiple judges on our Supreme Courts is to prevent individuals from acquiring “absolute power” over anyone, and the moment members of the judicial bran

By James O'Hagan Greetings Commissioners, I hope all is well with you and yours and I would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to come before you and provide comment to you on the Washington State Judicial branch. During my comments I will ask you questions that I don’t expect you to answer but consider how you would answer them. I can assure you it is not my intent to offend you, but it is my intent to address a different perspective of extremely important iss

John Braun (Republican), the current Minority Leader of the Washington State Senate (representing District 20), is running for the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington's 3rd Congressional District.

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By C. Michael Pickens, Pacific County Resident For centuries, the office of sheriff has occupied a unique and important place in American government. The sheriff is not simply another law-enforcement bureaucrat. In most states, including Washington, the sheriff is directly elected by the people of the county, making the office one of the few law-enforcement positions accountable directly to voters rather than political appointees. Washington’s Second Substitute Senate Bill 59