North Carolina Supreme Court Secretly Squashed Discipline of Two GOP Judges Who Admitted to Violating Judicial Code
North Carolina Supreme Court Secretly Squashed Discipline of Two GOP Judges Who Admitted to Violating Judicial Code
The decisions came despite the Judicial Standards Commission’s recommendations to publicly reprimand the judges, and these are likely the only times in more than a decade in which the court didn’t follow the commission’s guidance.
Last fall, out of public view, the North Carolina Supreme Court squashed disciplinary action against two Republican judges who had admitted that they had violated the state’s judicial code of conduct, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the decisions.
One of the judges had ordered, without legal justification, that a witness be jailed. The other had escalated a courtroom argument with a defendant, which led to a police officer shooting the defendant to death. The Judicial Standards Commission, the arm of the state Supreme Court that investigates judicial misconduct by judges, had recommended that the court publicly reprimand both women. The majority-Republican court gave no public explanation for rejecting the recommendations — indeed, state law mandates that such decisions remain confidential.
The other had escalated a courtroom argument with a defendant, which led to a police officer shooting the defendant to death.
Wait, what happened? That seems like as crazy of a story as this one.
This may be the incident, but it's low on facts so I can't be sure.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/defendant-dies-after-north-carolina-courtroom-shooting-n1278925
A second source with a bit more info.
And a third that verifies this is the same incident.
The article seemed intent on hiding the names of the judges but, thankfully, there aren’t many court shootings per year, per state. Could be this’n
One would think secretly squashing disciplinary action that was based on admitted violation of the judicial code would itself be a violation of the judicial code. WTF?!?
Thank you Propublica!
I'm so impressed by their work!
Just little artifacts of fascism setteling into the fabric of American society.
And it seems to be always tied to the conservatives / republicans.
Intake bias
Disgusting behavior by GOP is no longer surprising and that, in and of itself, is deeply troubling.
If they had let it happen to those two, it could happen to any of them.
As it should.
North Carolina citizens massively fucked up by sitting out the election for the state supreme Court seat and letting the incumbent Democrat get removed
Hope you do better in a few decades (hopefully sooner if one drops dead or has the fate they deserve)
Yay corrupt justice
I like the article, but are we giving up on the difference between "quash" and "squash" or has that train sailed?
AI isn't as smart as we are. ;)
Wonton and brazen corruption and misconduct by GOP agents at all levels, you say? Must be a day of the week.
And Repub like to say they're not corrupt.
And they are probably still judging 🤔. What are we? Retarded sand rock? Not just motionless objects, but practically useless ones?
Not "probably". The court literally declined to take any disciplinary action at all.