POLITICAL ACTIVITY
Opinion No. 34 (1978)*
QUESTION: The defeated candidate in a primary election for the office
of district judge (where one of the candidates was a constitutional county judge and the
other a private attorney) has sought a determination of the Committee as to whether
certain advertisements of the winning candidate amounted to a violation of Canon 7 of the Code of Judicial Conduct.
ANSWER: The Committee declines to pass upon the questions of fact for
lack of jurisdiction over the parties (neither of whom were at the time subject to the
Code of Judicial Conduct) or the subject matter of the inquiry. The Committee acts only as
an advisory peer group in determining the application of the Code of Judicial Conduct to
undisputed factual situations.
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*Canon 7 was amended effective June 26, 1990.