By Erik Ortiz
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States generally follow the American Bar Association’s “model code of judicial conduct,” which does not specifically mention social media norms. The association also offers nonbinding guidance from 2013 that says if judges use “proper care” when they opine online, they can avoid compromising their integrity. On the federal level, a planning resource for judicial employees’ social media use was devised in 2010 and warned that “nothing is ‘private’ on the Internet.”
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Read more, especially multiple case examples of judges who improperly used social media…
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