Robert Winter, Jr. v. Steven Wolnitzek

OPINION

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

One sitting judge and two aspiring judges from Kentucky wish to exercise their free-speech rights during this and future judicial elections. They claim that the Commonwealth’s Code of Judicial Conduct stands in the way. They are not the first judges to bring this kind of complaint. A growing line of cases grapples with the States’ authority to create a system of judicial elections on the one hand and regulate judicial campaign speech on the other. See Williams-Yulee v. Fla. Bar, — U.S.-, 135 S.Ct. 1656, 191 L.Ed.2d 570 (2015); Republican Party of Minn. v. White,…