In re Bruno

The Opinion of the Court, which I authored, addresses the constitutional issues raised, and is filed in support of the dispos-itive per curiam order already entered by the Court. I write separately, unconstrained by majority authorship, to explain my own views on additional points not resolved by the Opinion.1

The Court today holds that we have broad authority at King’s Bench to effectuate our supervisory function over judicial personnel including, if appropriate, by suspending without pay jurists charged with a felony for conduct on the bench. We explained that the exercise of King’s Bench…