Judicial ethics is a part of the legal category. Judicial ethics consists of standards and norms to bear on the judges and also covers the matters and evolute how to maintain independence, and impartiality and also avoid impropriety.
Other disciplinary actions for the interactions of rules are conducted by the state judges and controlled by the state judicial commissions. All the states establish the agencies and the commissions and states for passing the screening and deposit steps. Judicial committees have the authority to sanction a judge and need any judges to retire or resign.
Some commissions plea guilty or for no contest, they are also authorized for making any finding of criminal guilt punishable when a felony lies under the state or federal law.
What Judicial Ethics Says?
In general, the commission’s findings are appealable to state courts.
Federal Material
Code to Conduct for United States Judges
Federal Statutes
Judicial Conference (28 U.S.C. 331)
Judicial Discipline (28 U.S.C. 372)
State Material
State Commissions
- N.Y. State Comm’n Judicial Conduct
- Ariz. Commission Judicial Conduct
- Illinois Judicial Inquiry Board
- Judicial Conduct Comm’ns Other States
State Codes of Judicial Conduct
- N.Y. Rules Governing Judicial Conduct
- Cal. Code Judicial Ethics (PDF)
- Illinois Code of Judicial Conduct
- Other States’ Court Rules
These are the basis of judicial ethics which every lawyer must know before they stand in the courtroom.
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