Houston Public MediaJun 5, 2025

A Fort Bend County district court judge who used profanity in his courtroom has been cleared of three of the four sanctions brought against him.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/fort-bend/2025/06/05/523156/review-panel-overturns-sanctions-against-judge-who-cursed-in-courtroom/

#Court #CriminalJustice #FortBend #Local #News #FortBendCounty #JudgeStephenRogers #JudicialConduct #SpecialCourtOfReview #StateCommissionOnJudicialConduct

Review panel overturns sanctions against Fort Bend judge who cursed in courtroom

A review panel said Judge Stephen Rogers should have been privately admonished, instead of publicly.

Houston Public Media
joe•iuculano Dec 22, 2024

« #NewYork judge who invoked her position & threatened 2 shoot #Black teenagers @ party has resigned & dropped monthslong fight 2 remain on bench after a state commission recommended she be forced 2 leave office

Justice #ErinPGall of State Supreme Court in #OneidaCounty was suspended w/pay from $232,600/yr position in July after state Commission on #JudicialConduct determined that she had engaged in “racially offensive, profane” tirade @ a high school graduation party»

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/nyregion/ny-judge-erin-gall.html

White Judge Who Threatened to Shoot Black Teens at Party Resigns

Justice Erin P. Gall of Oneida County, N.Y., faced removal from office after a judicial commission found that she engaged in a “racially offensive, profane” tirade at a high school graduation party.

The New York Times
Show threadNonilexAug 9, 2023

@voron

yes, & Jim #Troupis was REappointed to the #Wisconsin #Judicial Advisory Panel.

The #WisconsinSupremeCourt ordered the reappointment of #attorney James R. Troupis to the #JudicialConduct Advisory Committee for a term that runs until March 7, 2026. The court's 4 #conservative justices supported his reappointment while 3 liberal justices dissented.

#Corruption #Law
https://www.wpr.org/jim-troupislawyer-trump-fake-elector-scheme-judicial-advisory-panel-wisconsin-supreme-court

Lawyer who oversaw Trump elector scheme in Wisconsin reappointed to judicial advisory panel

A lawyer who advised Wisconsin Republicans on using fake electors after the 2020 election has been reappointed to a state panel that renders advisory opinions and advice for judges.

Wisconsin Public Radio
joe•iuculano Jun 8, 2023

#Florida's #JudicialQualificationsCommission found that Circuit Judge #ElizabethScherer violated several rules governing #JudicialConduct during last year’s trial in her actions toward #NikolasCruz’s public defenders. The six-month trial ended with Cruz receiving a life sentence for the 2018 #murder of 14 students and three staff members at #MarjoryStonemanDouglas High School after the #jury could not unanimously agree that he deserved a #DeathSentence.

#Parkland

https://apnews.com/article/nevada-governor-ethics-complaint-campaign-sheriff-badge-6c41bb03cf7567219244b2f4dfeb5515

Nevada's GOP governor facing $1.7M ethics penalty for campaigning with sheriff's badge, uniform

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada's Republican governor is facing an almost $1.7 million ethics penalty and possible censure for wearing his badge and uniform as Las Vegas-area sheriff in campaign photos and on social media ahead of his election last year.

Associated Press
beSpacificApr 14, 2023
AO US Cts: "Judges, judicial employees nationwide are bound by #ethicslaws, prescribed #codesofconduct. These govern proper performance of official duties, limit certain #outsideactivities to avoid #conflictsofinterest. Under #JudicialConduct & Disability Act, chief judges and circuit judicial councils, & Judicial Conference of US when appropriate, investigate & resolve any submitted claim that judge “has engaged in conduct prejudicial to effective, expeditious admin of business of courts”