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Part-Time Judges – Political
Activities – Lesson Preview
- Opinion
85-8 details that it is not proper for a part-time
judge to continue in that position while a candidate
for a school board position even though that said position
is in a school district outside the municipality in
which the judge sits.
- Part-time judges must comply with
provisions of the CJC
Canon 7 (A).
(Opinion
90-11)
- CJC
Canon 7 (A) (1) (b) prohibits a judicial officer
from publicly endorsing a non-judicial candidate for
public office. (Opinion
93-9)
- CJC
Canon 7 (A) (2) states that judicial officers shall
not identify themselves as members of a political party
and that they may not contribute to a political party.
- CJC
Canon 7 (A) (4) states that judges must resign
from office when they become a candidate for any non-judicial
office. (Opinion
85-8)
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