A retired California judge who’s still working on temporary judicial assignments should not take a job as a top aide to another state’s attorney general, an ethics panel stated in an opinion released Monday.

The California Supreme Court’s Committee on Judicial Ethics Opinions wrote in a five-page advisory that the unnamed jurist who requested guidance about the out-of-state job offer risked running afoul of ethical canons barring judges from practicing law.

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