The Court considers comments on amendments it recently adopted to rules dealing with governance of the judicial branch. The changes were intended to strengthen governance, improve management and enhance communication so as to better fulfill the branch mission of protecting rights and liberties, upholding and interpreting the law and providing for the peaceful resolution of disputes. One of the changes created term limits for chief judges in Florida's 20 judicial circuits and five district courts of appeal. That change and several other amendments are the subject of the commentary.

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