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California Judges In Uproar Over New Ethics Rules

Judges up and down the state are shaking their heads over a draft opinion from California's judicial ethics committee that would limit what judges can say.

The opposition to the ethics opinion has to do with the tension between trial judges and a big bureaucracy that sits atop the far-flung California judicial system, as well as the financial pressure on individual trial courts resulting from enormous budget cuts.

Source: Courthouse News. Read full article. (link)

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