In early May, the Independent Judicial Screening Committee of Bronx Democratic County Committee (IJSC) concluded the application submission period for candidates interested in
the elected judicial positions that will occur in the 2017 election cycle in and for the County of the Bronx, City and State of New York.
The law is quite clear — and the mandatory training reinforced this over and over again — that the moment she put herself forward as a candidate for
an elected judicial position she was subject to state ethics laws for judges and judicial candidates.
Not exact matches
In many states where the following
positions are
elected offices, voters
elected state executive branch offices (including Lieutenant Governors (though some will be voted for on the same ticket as the gubernatorial nominee), Secretary of state, state Treasurer, state Auditor, state Attorney General, state Superintendent of Education, Commissioners of Insurance, Agriculture or, Labor, etc.) and state
judicial branch offices (seats on state Supreme Courts and, in some states, state appellate courts).
In 2005 Chief Justice Joseph Lambert became the first official in State Government to do something to prohibit retired judges being able to double - dip by receiving their
judicial retirement benefits, and then being eligible to earn a full salary by getting
elected to another
judicial position.
However, central to such a consideration must be a recognition that councillors «are not in a
judicial or quasi-
judicial position but are
elected to provide and pursue policies».