Florida’s courts are underfunded to a level that violates our fundamental Constitutional rights.
Florida’s legislature has whittled down the funding of our court system so that our courts are funded with only .07 of the state’s entire budget.
During this year’s legislative session, the legislators have introduced a slew of proposed laws that would further undermine our judicial branch.
Our judges and especially their staff are under blistering attacks with the legislature threatening to cut judicial and staff budgets even more.
Meanwhile the case load that our judges are operating under is greater than at any other time in our state’s history.
It should be noted that a primary source of our court’s unprecedented case load are foreclosure cases which have become so complicated and unworkable and take so much of this courts time, due largely to the shortcuts, fraud and violations of court procedures that the foreclosure mills and the banks engaged in.
Despite all these problems, our judges, particularly those in Florida’s Sixth judicial circuit are managing the unmanageable, putting in incredible amounts of time and producing the kind of real judicial decisions that have given the Sixth Judicial Circuit a reputation for being among the best in the state.
Here is the latest example of such great work:
