Judges who wander into the thicket of politics risk their career if they get caught, but most transgressions result in a lesser sanction such as admonitions or censures by the Commission on Judicial Conduct, records show.
A review of commission determinations involving judges who engaged in impermissible political activity suggests that the panel does not have a “one-size-fits-all” uniform approach to how to address such cases.
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