Page 7:  So, our total budget request is $1,340,000 more than the Executive Branch recommendations and $840,000 more than the budget passed by the House for the Michigan Supreme Court and the State Court Administrative Office. This wouldn't allow us to fully restore operations, but it would allow us to get closer to what we believe is a minimum level of service.

Yet, an on tour scheme is budgeted?  Disgusting.  If folks want to blow a day watching our court system in action, they really need to get off their asses and make the effort on their own dime.  All this gummint cradle-to-grave assistance is beyond outrageous.  Now it's a transparency deal too?  C'mon Wiz.  I love your blog, positions and views, but transparency is bit of a stretch for me.

I don't even want to get started about page 5 where the court is crying for interpreters being needed while our GoverNerd is yapping about importing more immigrants to this state either.  The whole damned bloated system is more fugged up than Hogan's goat.

Although, I do have to agree with you about the quantity of lawyers in this country.  We can barely move without being forced to deal with them anymore.  Odd too is that with being up to our elbows in them, the cream still hasn't necessarily been what rises to the top.

Both Obama's.. Bart Stupak.. Jack O'Reilly.. Carl Levin.. Sander Levin.. Jennifer Granholm.. Elizabeth Weaver.. Gary Peters.. John Conyers.. Jim Blanchard.. Rashida Tlaib..

Oh, I could go on all day listing 'em.  But, it'd prolly just reinforce me wanting all law schools shut down even longer than the aforementioned decade.  Flooding the country with turds to interpret legalese that they write that only they truly understand and we all have to live as law isn't the answer either.  They're already entrenched in protecting their own profession and in dire need of a cull.