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Part-Time Judges – Political
Activities – Lesson Review
- 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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