Savage also said the court's rulings in the Combs and Doyle cases made it harder to determine what campaign rhetoric is unethical. I think that will allow judicial campaigns to become more aggressive. And I don't like that. Numbers don't include complaints still pending at the end of a given year. The Kentucky Judicial Retirement and Removal Commission, which provided these figures, has jurisdiction over the state's 244 state district, circuit and appellate judges, its 160 trial, domestic-relations and master commissioners, and candidates for judicial office.
Many complaints involve disgruntled litigants and are dismissed as being unfounded or frivolous.
Go to Strollin' Pettifoggers describing how Federal Court must remedy the many violations of law described.