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Bradbury: Court Botched Schools Suit

Judge John Bradbury of Idaho/Clearwater counties offered good answers to the five questions that I asked him turning a half-hour interview this morning. Here's the answer he gave to my question re: the worst court decision of the last five years: "It's the school funding case. Over 18 years of litigation, the Idaho Supreme Court ruled that thorough education required by the Constitution means the state has to adequately fund education. Once they made that decision and came time to send decision back to the trial judge to enforce it, the Supreme Court refused to send it back and wouldn't give a reason. So the lawyers moved for a hearing and the justices had the clerk of the Supreme Court call the lawyers into the basement of the Supreme Court and tell them orally and without any record that the case was over. So today we have no explanation by the highest court in the state why it declined to have the trial judge enforce the court's decision." You can read the entire interview here. And: Judge Bradbury's Web site here.

Question: Do you know enough about the Idaho Supreme Court race between incumbent Roger Burdick and challenger John Bradbury to vote intelligently?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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