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OK, how is it the disciplinary commission can reach a decision on suspending these attorneys, but they might need a mediator to decide on the complaints involving our state’s Attorney General? Rokita Rules? Not a good look for the Commission and, certainly, not for the Indiana Supreme Court.
I think the suspension order comes from the Supreme Court. And these suspensions do not go to the mertis; the attorneys are suspended for failing to comply with the procedural rules. Once they do so, if they do so, they would presumably be reinstated until the Commission and the Court reach the merits.
As for Rokita, I think the mediator is to allow the Supreme Court a face saving way out of the mess. As good Republicans, they don’t want to be seen as taking down a Republican state office holder. And Rokita will not back down. Unless the Disciplinary Commission is instructed by the Court to throw in the towel, the mediation will be a fiasco, and the Court will be forced to accept its responsibility of policing the bar and disciplining those who break the rules. Two Justices are already in favor of doing so; they need one more.
but I’m not a lawyer, and never played one in a TV commercial (but I have stayed at a Holiday Inn). So, in the near-immortal words of Dennis Miller (another good Republican), that’s just my opinion, I could be wrong…
Of course Rokita can afford to continue the fight at our expense and look at all of the free publicity he is receiving from the ongoing fight showing his base he is just like his hero, Donald.
Has Rokita done anything for the citizens of Indiana except chase windmills?