What are some things that judges should be careful of in terms of avoiding professional discipline?

Being a judge is not an easy job and has become more difficult because litigants and lawyers are more prone to file complaints. Even more importantly, it appears that supervising judges, president judges, or minor court administrators facilitate complaints. Also, organizations that don’t like how judges are handling certain types of cases are now systematically submitting complaints to the Judicial Conduct Board. Also, at least from a district judge’s standpoint, many complaints come from either police officers who appear before a district judge or from the district judge’s own staff. Ever since the hiring and firing powers were taken from the district judge of their employees, there seems to be more complaints made by employees who seem to work with the minor judiciary court administrator. It is not a good situation.

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