Ethics Restrictions
Judicial officers are charged with maintaining the integrity and independence of the judiciary. All justices and judges are required to be nonpartisan and are forbidden from using their office or powers to promote or assist any private interest. To maintain their non-partisanship, justices and judges may not hold offices in political parties; make speeches for candidates; or make, directly or indirectly, contributions to campaigns of any candidate for any elected or appointed office.
Justices and judges are also forbidden from campaigning for their own reelection unless there is an active opposition to their retention of office. Even if a justices or judges are actively campaigning for retention, they can not personally raise funds for their campaign.
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“Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)