Magistrates, the police, defendants, witnesses and solicitors would all incur substantial additional costs if the courthouses were closed.
There is no proposal to close the courthouses that he has mentioned.
Each system has its own separate courthouses and geographical areas of jurisdiction.
The issue of coats of arms in courthouses and the oaths taken by members of the judiciary goes right to the heart of that symbology.
We believe that we have made some commonsense amendments to preserve certain coats of arms within historic courthouses.
It is my firm belief that local justice should be meted out by local magistrates in local courthouses.
In the courthouses and prisons this ephemeral mass was most successfully brought under colonial scrutiny, and as a result, criminality became synonymous with the floating population.
Louisiana's courthouse cliques and their landed sponsors demanded concrete evidence that their historic hammerlock on parochial government would continue.
