Drury v. County of McLean

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• holding that the clerk of a circuit court \must be a member of State government\ because if it were otherwise, a county government could exercise control over the administration of justice—something Article VI neither contemplates nor authorizes
• finding that circuit court clerks are not a county office even if counties pay the salaries and expenses of the circuit court clerks
• \The fact that counties pay the salaries and expenses of circuit court clerks does not make the office of circuit court clerk a county office.\
• fact that counties pay salaries and expenses of circuit court clerks does not make the office of circuit court clerk a county office
• fact that counties pay salaries and expenses of circuit court clerks does not make the office of circuit court clerk a county office
• clerks of circuit courts are not county officials but are nonjudicial members of the judicial branch of state government

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).