Maine Lawmakers Want to Examine How Judges Are Disciplined. The Judicial Branch Says It’s Not Their Call.

Maine lawmakers want to examine how judges are disciplined. The judicial branch says it’s not their call.

The debate in the Legislature follows an ethics complaint against Maine Supreme Court Justice Catherine Connors that has yet to be resolved.

Maine lawmakers, judicial branch clash over disciplining judges

The legislature’s judiciary committee defied a warning from the chief justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Wednesday, pressing ahead with efforts to examine how the judicial branch handles ethics complaints against its judges. In a work session on  L.D. 1810, the committee considered how to address what one lawmaker called a “gap” in the judicial branch’s system for disciplining high court justices. But the legislators’ options appeare…

Maine lawmakers want to examine how judges are disciplined. The judicial branch says that isn’t their call.

The debate in the legislature follows an ethics complaint against Maine Supreme Court Justice Catherine Connors that has yet to be resolved.

Maine Monitor: Maine lawmakers want to examine how judges are disciplined. The judicial branch says that isn’t their call.

By Josh Keefe of the Maine Monitor May 25, 2025 The debate in the legislature follows an ethics complaint against Maine Supreme Court Justice Catherine Connors that has yet to be resolved. The legislature’s judiciary committee defied a warning from the chief justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Wednesday, pressing ahead with efforts to examine how the judicial branch handles ethics complaints against its judges. In a work session on L.…

Judiciary committee declines to address Maryland’s stalled bail reform effort

Bail reform continues to stump Maryland’s top legal decision makers, who declined to take up the issue at a May 22 committee meeting. That’s despite reporting that showed the state’s 2017 effort to reform the cash bail system backfired as judges began holding more people in jail without bail instead. The Maryland Judiciary’s rules committee suggested that a solution will need to come from lawmakers, rather than through additional changes to judi…