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Mass. Justice Sorry for 'Red State' Remark By DENISE LAVOIE, Associated Press Writer 38 minutes ago Massachusetts' chief justice has apologized for a remark she made about "red states" during a commencement speech last spring after a citizen complaint was filed with the state's Commission on Judicial Conduct. In greeting the audience at the Brandeis University commencement last May, Chief Justice Margaret Marshall commented on the hundreds of blue and white balloons held in nets tied to the rafters. "No red states here," Marshall told the crowd, using a term used to describe Republican-leaning states. In her apology Friday, the...

Posted on Wed, Apr. 14, 2004 Judicial Commission rules judge misrepresented facts in campaign JOE BIESK Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. - An eastern Kentucky judge ran campaign ads that misrepresented his judicial opponent and he should be publicly reprimanded, the Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission has ruled. Pike County District Judge Darrel H. Mullins had "engaged in misconduct in office," by misrepresenting facts in political ads against his opponent, John Doug Hays, in his 2002 judicial election, the commission ruled. "In a judicial election, the candidates must provide the public with truthful and accurate information. When a candidate misrepresents facts, the...

  The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct has completed formal proceedings against Robert Hamley, a former justice of the Hunter Village Court, Greene County.  Pursuant to a stipulation, which the Commission approved on December 11, 2003, the proceedings were discontinued and the case was closed. Under the terms of the stipulation, Judge Hamley waived the statutory provision of confidentiality applicable to Commission proceedings, to the limited extent that the stipulation would be made public.  The stipulation indicates the following: The Commission served a Formal Written Complaint on Judge Hamley dated July 17, 2003, containing two charges; One Charge...

When election law expert and longtime Republican activist Thomas J. Spargo was caught on film participating in a noisy political demonstration, nobody close to politics was particularly surprised. Spargo is a seasoned regular in the political game, and that he would show up in Florida at the Miami-Dade County Board of Elections during the Bush-Gore electoral debacle of November 2000 was almost predictable. But there was one thing troubling about that image. At the same time he was stumping for George W. Bush and chanting with other Republican supporters at what amounted to a boisterous sit-in, Spargo was serving as...