{"id":152450,"date":"2026-05-20T12:15:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/20\/a-laughingstock-in-the-legal-community-one-state-rolls-back-ban-on-judges-making-political-endorsements\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:15:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:15:58","slug":"a-laughingstock-in-the-legal-community-one-state-rolls-back-ban-on-judges-making-political-endorsements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/20\/a-laughingstock-in-the-legal-community-one-state-rolls-back-ban-on-judges-making-political-endorsements\/","title":{"rendered":"‘A Laughingstock’ in the Legal Community: One State Rolls Back Ban on Judges Making Political Endorsements"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI feel this is not a proper decision, and it flies in the face of precedent within our state. It flies in the face of what every other state has done, and how judicial officials in other states are expected to act, a state legislator told Law.com during an interview this week.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI feel this is not a proper decision, and it flies in the face of precedent within our state. It flies in the face of what every other state has done, and how judicial officials in other states are expected to act, a state legislator told Law.com during an interview this week.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI feel this is not a proper decision, and it flies in the face of precedent within our state. It flies in the face of what every other state has done, and how judicial officials in other states are expected to act, a state legislator told Law.com during an interview this week. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI feel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":152451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/legal-news-A8yxWb.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}