10/11/2024
The problem with Amendment 6 is that on line 7, "administration of justice" is only for a judge. A judge is the only "Administrator of Justice." And this amendment would include benefits for the sheriffs, former sheriffs, prosecuting attorneys, former prosecuting attorneys, circuit attorneys, former circuit attorneys. Those are line items 9, 10 and 11. But the Sheriffs job and all these other jobs their "administration" is of "peace and order " NOT of "justice."
So that is the problem with this amendment.
See RsMO 57.955... the Missouri legislature tried, and a judge struck it down.
See the notation at the bottom of the statute.
Terms like “administration of justice” have a specific well-understood meaning and purpose, we should never, on a whim, change it to suit our desires and that is what we are doing in these amendments, not just 6 but 2,3,5 and 7