Post by Stopsegregationofmen on Nov 28, 2021 8:25:55 GMT
What can I complain about?
You must allege that a federal judge has committed misconduct or is disabled, as defined in the Act. “Misconduct” is “conduct prejudicial to the effective and expeditious administration of the business of the courts.” A “disability” is a temporary or permanent condition, either mental or physical, that makes the judge “unable to discharge all the duties” of the judicial office.
Examples of judicial misconduct may include the following:
using the judge’s office to obtain special treatment for friends or relatives;
accepting bribes, gifts, or other personal favors related to the judicial office;
engaging in improper ex parte communications with parties or counsel for one side in a case;
engaging in partisan political activity or making inappropriately partisan statements;
soliciting funds for organizations;
violating rules or standards pertaining to restrictions on outside income or knowlingly violating requirements for financial disclosure;
engaging in unwanted, offensive, or abusive sexual conduct, including sexual harassment or assault;
treating litigants, attorneys, judicial employees, or others in a demonstrably egregious and hostile manner;
creating a hostile work environment for judicial employees;
intentional discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, gender, gender entity, pregnancy, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, or disability;
retaliating against complainants, witnesses, judicial employees, or others for participating in the judicial conduct and disability complaint process, or for reporting or disclosing judicial misconduct or disability;
refusing, without good cause shown, to cooperate in the investigation of a judicial conduct or disability complaint or enforcement of a decision under the Rules; and
failing to call to the attention of the relevant district chief judge or circuit chief judge any reliable information reasonably likely to constitute judicial misconduct or disability.
This list does not include all the possible grounds for a complaint.
You may complain about actions taken by a judge outside their official role as a judge if “the conduct is reasonably likely to have a prejudicial effect on the administration of the business of the courts, including a substantial and widespread lowering of public confidence in the courts among reasonable people.”
You cannot use this process to obtain automatic disqualification of a judge presiding over a case. In addition, you cannot use this process to challenge the correctness of a judge’s decision in a case. A judicial decision that is unfavorable to you does not alone establish misconduct or a disability. Under the Act, a complaint challenging the correctness of a judge’s decision will be dismissed. If you wish to challenge such a decision, you must do so before that court or on appeal, and not by filing a judicial conduct or disability complaint.
Source:
www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-conduct-disability/faqs-filing-judicial-conduct-or-disability-complaint?fbclid=IwAR2cmB_sKpbhSPoU0BY4zn6dMiEOjRJ3KCctsVrFhBSBqgbW36CbOCJvGUs