Bexar County Probate Court No. 2 Judge Tom Rickhoff has filed a federal suit against the 13 members and the executive director of the State Commission on Judicial Conduct alleging that their investigation into a complaint filed against him by a political opponent violates his First Amendment free-speech rights.
In his Feb. 17 complaint in Rickhoff v. Willing, et al. , filed in the Western District of Texas, Rickhoff attacks the commission executive director’s and members’ authority to police sitting judges’ campaign speech and alleges that such investigations chill jurists’ free-speech rights and judicial independence. Rickhoff is suing the defendants in their official capacities.
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