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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 11, 2022

The Judicial Ethics Committee issued Advisory Opinion 22-01 on March 29 to address whether judicial candidates are permitted to solicit and accept campaign contributions now that Gov. Bill Lee has signed SB2010/HB1708 into law. The committee finds that the new law does allow judicial candidates to solicit and accept campaign contributions, but notes that other sections of the Code of Judicial Conduct may be implicated by the solicitation or receipt of campaign contributions and recommends that judicial candidates “be mindful of the Code as a whole when deciding whether or how he or she should personally solicit and accept contributions.”