Here’s a quick update to my earlier posts on Florida House Speaker Dean Cannon’s proposal to split the Florida Supreme Court into a two-headed monster.
The Florida House voted to send the proposed Constitutional Amendment to voters last Friday, April 15, 2011.
But the proposal pending in the Florida Senate to require Senate Confirmation of Supreme Court nominees, which was thought to be the Senate’s opening salvo in taking up the broader Supreme Court restructuring plan, has been taken off the table.
Matt Dixon of PolitiJax blog has details.