Alaska State House Judiciary Committee Confirmation
Contributed by David Haeg
My name is David Haeg, and I am in Soldotna. I oppose the confirmation of Mr. Cox as Alaska’s attorney general.
Mr. Cox recently wrote formal comments to the Supreme Court on proposed new rules for grand juries. In his comments, Mr. Cox repeatedly states that citizens must be prohibited from presenting various issues to grand juries, especially court cases.
However, a recent report by Notre Dame Law scholars, commissioned by Mr. Cox himself, states this:
“Neither the executive nor the courts should be permitted to decide what the people may protest about. They may nowhere come between the citizen and the grand juror by screening out petitions.”
Far more damning than this, however, are the undisputed, on-record words of the 55 delegates who wrote Alaska’s Constitution:
“The Grand Jury in its investigative power as well as for the fact it is sitting there as a panel sometimes as the only recourse for a citizen to get justice, to get redress from abuse in lower courts... It is the only safeguard a citizen occasionally has when for any reason, and very often for political reasons, a case is not dealt with properly.”
With such clear and compelling evidence that Mr. Cox has already attacked the public welfare and safety, it will be important for citizens to know how each legislator votes.
Thank you for this opportunity.