The New York state Commission on Judicial Conduct has admonished a Rochester City Court judge for soliciting, from the bench, support from an attorney for the judge’s Supreme Court candidacy moments before she presided over a case involving the attorney’s client.
The case renewed the long-standing debate among some members of the conduct commission about whether state rules governing judicial conduct are confusing and impose unconstitutional First Amendment restrictions on the political activities of judges.
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