In re Judicial Qualifications Commission Formal Advisory Opinion No. 241

In July 2014, the Council of State Court Judges (hereinafter, “the Council”) filed an amicus brief in the then-pending matter of Sentinel Offender Services, LLC v. Glover, 296 Ga. 315 (766 SE2d 456) (2014).1 That same month, plaintiffs’ counsel in Sentinel submitted a request to the Judicial Qualifications Commission (hereinafter, “the Commission”) for an opinion as to whether the Georgia Code of Judicial Conduct prohibited the Council from submitting amicus briefs to the Supreme Court of Georgia in a pending case involving *55private litigants. Thereafter, the Commission rendered Formal…