{"id":2164,"date":"2024-08-06T17:13:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T17:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ethics-committee-urges-restraint-in-judicial-responses-to-election-attacks\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T17:13:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T17:13:36","slug":"ethics-committee-urges-restraint-in-judicial-responses-to-election-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ethics-committee-urges-restraint-in-judicial-responses-to-election-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethics Committee Urges Restraint in Judicial Responses to Election Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Judges whose rulings are targeted in a campaign-related attack should think twice before defending their actions in a pending matter, even if recent ethics rule changes allow them to do just that, a state judicial committee suggested Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The California Supreme Court Committee on Judicial Ethics Opinions is asking for public comment on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judicialethicsopinions.ca.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/CJEO-Draft-Formal-Opinion-2024-027-Invitation-to-Comment.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">draft formal opinion<\/a> that would set parameters on 2020 amendments to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judicialethicsopinions.ca.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/CJEO-Annotated-California-Code-of-Judicial-Ethics.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canon 3B(9)<\/a> of the Code of Judicial Ethics. Those changes, enacted in the wake of the historical recall of a Santa Clara County judge, authorized judges to respond to criticism of their rulings in connection with a recall or election campaign.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judges whose rulings are targeted in a campaign-related attack should think twice before defending their actions in a pending matter, even if recent ethics rule changes allow them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2878,478,642,2875,485,1062,2877,2876],"class_list":["post-2164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-attacks","tag-committee","tag-election","tag-ethics","tag-judicial","tag-responses","tag-restraint","tag-urges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}