Summe v. Judicial Retirement & Removal Commission

Respectfully, I must dissent.

Patricia Summe entered the rough and tumble world of Kentucky electoral politics and was successful in unseating a recently gubernatorially appointed incumbent circuit judge, Frank Trusty. She ran a good campaign against a tough opponent and was popularly elected by the Kenton County voters. *49In Kentucky, both the law and tradition allow judicial candidates, like all other candidates in political elections, to be guided by the rules of the Marquis de Sade as long as they tell the truth. Idealists would restrict judicial candidates to the rales of the Marquis de…