Inquiry Concerning Complaint of Judicial Standards Commission v. Baugh

¶18 “[Njeither laws nor the procedures used to create or implement them should be secret; and... the laws must not be arbitrary.”1 Public confidence in the judiciary, which is at issue in these proceedings, depends on laws that are predictably and uniformly applied. I cannot agree, therefore, with this Court’s decision to impose a sanction more severe than the one recommended by the Judicial Standards Commission when we have not articulated a single rule, standard, or analysis justifying this decision. In rejecting the Commission’s recommendation, the Court fails to set forth a standard of…