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Judicial ethics prevents judges facing retention votes from campaigning unless there’s active opposition to their remaining in the post. It’s expensive to wage a statewide election campaign.
An Oklahoma judicial ethics panel is investigating a new state judge who can be seen on courtroom video scrolling through social media and texting on her cellphone throughout a murder trial ...
https://oklahoma.gov/cojc.html The Oklahoma Council on Judicial Complaints is an agency of the state of Oklahoma that investigates allegations of judicial misconduct and can recommend a judge be reprimanded by the Oklahoma Supreme Court or recommend the judge's removal from office by the Oklahoma Court on the Judiciary .
A costly and secret campaign is being waged by special interest groups to remove Oklahoma Supreme Court justices. Opinion: A Supreme Court scandal humiliated Oklahoma before. A new one is brewing.
The Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals was established by the state legislature in 1970 under Title 20, section 30.1, of the Oklahoma Statutes, which provides: "There is hereby established an intermediate appellate court to be known as the Court of Civil Appeals of the State of Oklahoma which shall have the power to determine or otherwise dispose of any cases that are assigned to it by the ...
The Oklahoma Supreme Court consists of a chief justice, a vice-chief justice, and seven associate justices, who are nominated by the Oklahoma Judicial Nominating Commission and are appointed by the governor. After appointment, the justices serve until the next general state election. At that time, they must face a retention election. If ...
Hill responded that she would follow the rules of judicial conduct to decide when to recuse herself, an answer that didn’t seem to satisfy Tillis. “So that’s a maybe,” he said. “If it ...
The Oklahoma Court on the Judiciary is one of the two independent courts in the Oklahoma judiciary and has exclusive jurisdiction in adjudicating discipline and hearing cases involving the removal of a judge from office, excluding the Oklahoma Supreme Court, exercising judicial power under the Oklahoma Constitution.