The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct voted Tuesday to curb the responsibilities of its chairman, celebrity divorce lawyer Raoul Felder.

The vote came in the wake of Friday’s “no confidence” vote in Felder because of what the commission described as the “racial, ethnic and religious invective” in “Schmucks!” a book he co-wrote with comic Jackie Mason.

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