Legal Opinion
In the Matter of William A. Vincent, Jr.
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided November 9, 2007No. 27,266PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND FORMAL REPRIMAND
2Per curiam
{1} This is a Judicial Standards Commission proceeding involving San Juan County Magistrate Judge William A. Vincent, Jr. (Respondent). We are called upon to decide the constitutionality of the prohibition in our Code of Judicial Conduct against the public endorsement of a political candidate by a judge, commonly referred to as an “endorsement clause,” in light of the United States Supreme Court’s opinion in Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, 536 U.S. 765, 122 S.Ct. 2528, 153 L.Ed.2d 694 (2002). For the reasons that follow, we conclude that New Mexico’s…
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