On Wednesday, the House Civil Justice Subcommittee pushed judicial reforms that Speaker Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park, announced earlier in the week, including raising the threshold retention rate for appellate judges to 60 percent of the popular vote and opening more of the reports of the Judicial Qualifications Commission (JQC) to public scrutiny. The committee also held a workshop onCannons proposal to split the current Supreme Court into two bodies, one focusing on criminal matters with the other tackling civil concerns.
