Robert Tembeckjian

January 30, 2023 | New York Law Journal

Robert Tembeckjian, the administrator of the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, is the grandson of survivors of the Armenian genocide of 1915-17.

By Robert Tembeckjian

10 minute read

April 26, 2019 | New York Law Journal

It has now become a daily routine of the 45th president to denigrate the devoted men and women of our civic institutions: a respected court is derided as “disgraceful” for disagreeing with him, an honorable public servant is disparaged for directing a “witch hunt,” a dignified United States senator is ridiculed for having become a prisoner of war.

By Robert Tembeckjian

6 minute read

January 09, 2018 | New York Law Journal

The increasingly divisive, special-interest and politically driven view of the judiciary cannot be what we want for our system of justice. It would threaten to make the judge an instrument of ideological tyranny instead of a guardian against it.

By Robert Tembeckjian

14 minute read

January 11, 2016 | New York Law Journal

When the Legislature returned to Albany last week for a new session, leaders in both houses declared that ethics reform was high on their agenda, and the governor has also made it a priority. In the wake of a numbing string of convictions by federal prosecutors against numerous legislators, it is no wonder.

By Robert Tembeckjian

3 minute read

January 08, 2016 | New York Law Journal

When the Legislature returned to Albany last week for a new session, leaders in both houses declared that ethics reform was high on their agenda, and the governor has also made it a priority. In the wake of a numbing string of convictions by federal prosecutors against numerous legislators, it is no wonder.

By Robert Tembeckjian

3 minute read

May 05, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Robert Tembeckjian writes that in declaring that narrowly tailored restrictions on judicial campaign activity further the state's "compelling interest" in protecting the integrity of the judiciary last week, the U.S. Supreme Court did what the New York State Court of Appeals had done 12 years ago, in much the same language.

By Robert Tembeckjian

6 minute read

May 05, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Robert Tembeckjian writes that in declaring that narrowly tailored restrictions on judicial campaign activity further the state's "compelling interest" in protecting the integrity of the judiciary last week, the U.S. Supreme Court did what the New York State Court of Appeals had done 12 years ago, in much the same language.

By Robert Tembeckjian

6 minute read