In a Orwellian twist the Justice Department had filed a judicial misconduct complaint against several Minnesota judges who spoke out against ICE's illegal actions in Minnesota earlier this year. The judges were not only within their rights to speak out but were, in fact, doing what they are supposed to do a judges.
MPR has a good story on it as well.
“As legal-ethics experts have confirmed, I was acting well within the ethical rules that apply to federal judges in speaking to the New York Times,” Schiltz said “Indeed, in February of this year, the Committee on Codes of Conduct issued an advisory opinion to emphasize that federal judges may ‘[speak] and [write] on core judiciary matters such as advocacy for the rule of law and judicial independence.’ That is exactly what I did.”
A court spokesperson responded on behalf of Tunheim, echoing Schiltz’s statement that the comments were permitted under federal rules for judges.
It is a bit surreal for me as I have lots of hard evidence of lawyers and judges acting unethically, yet such actions have been completely ignored by the bar association, the justice system, as well as law enforcement. The insanity of it is mind boggling.
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