AFTER DEEP BUDGET CUTS TO HIS STAFF, JOSH STEIN NOW TOLD HE CAN'T SHIFT WORKLOAD: State lawmakers who targeted Attorney General Josh Stein earlier this year with surprise budget cuts now have a proposal to dictate how the Democrat handles appeals of criminal cases. In August, after $10 million was cut from his budget, Stein announced that he had eliminated 45 positions in his office, and because of that he said he would have to shift work on some criminal appeals to district attorneys’ offices across the state. Now a proposed mandate tucked into a larger budget-related bill would prohibit Stein from farming that work out to anyone outside his office, and the Republican lawmakers behind it said on Wednesday that it was because they had heard from many district attorneys that they were not equipped to take on the work. District attorneys and law enforcement organizations urged lawmakers earlier this year to reconsider the cuts to Stein’s office.
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