The state Supreme Court has approved a rule change that will allow magisterial district judge candidates to start their campaigns about two months earlier than in the past. Members of the Minor Court Rules Committee said the amendment was drafted in an effort to help incumbents to better compete with challengers.
According to the court’s Dec. 29 order, Paragraph C of Rule 15 of the Rules Governing Standards of Conduct of Magisterial District Judges now states that sitting MDJs and candidates for that office may engage in campaign activity, including buying tickets with their own personal funds for political party dinners or other functions, “beginning immediately following the General Election in the year prior to the calendar year in which they may become a candidate for such office.”
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