Code of Judicial Conduct

The Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee petitions this Court to consider amendments to the Florida Code of Judicial Conduct. The committee further petitions the Court to amend the committee’s enabling authority as established in Petition of Committee on Standards of Conduct for Judges, 327 So.2d 5 (Fla.1976), and amended in Petition of Committee on Standards for Conduct of Judges, 367 So.2d 625 (Fla.1979), and Petition of Committee on Standards of Conduct Governing Judges, 698 So.2d 834 (Fla.1997). We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 2(a), Fla. Const.

In response to our request that the…