Yet another New York judge of a justice court bounced off the bench? When will the Commission for Judicial Conduct go after bigger fish?

There are news that yet another judge of a New York justice court was bounced off the bench - allegedly for grabbing an intern.

Yet, the NYS Commission of Judicial Conduct did not reflect a decision against Judge Alan Simon as of this morning.

I will publish a post once the official decision will become available.

As of now, all I can say is that the Commission chooses to go after judges of the justice courts, carefully avoiding to touch with discipline judges of higher courts.

There is a good reason for it.

In New York, the infamous "rule of frivolous conduct" (that was used to suspend my law license for criticizing a judge in motions to recuse) do not operate in justice courts, so attorneys and litigants who turn in judges of justice courts do not run into a situation I faced - where the judge who you complained about gets assigned (or assigns himself) to all of your cases and starts to meticulously destroy your life by imposing sanctions for "frivolous conduct" left and right, no matter whether he is right or wrong - and the appellate courts no less meticulously affirm those sanctions, also, no matter whether there are facts in the record and laws in your support (like the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, for example) - simply to teach you and all other attorneys, through you, a lesson not to criticize higher-level judges.

Attorney licenses in New York are regulated by judges.

If you criticize a higher-ranking judge, the whole judiciary comes against you, and uses the rule of "frivolous conduct", at their "discretion", against you - and then take your license and livelihood away.

The majority of members, employees and referees of the NYS Commission of Judicial Conduct are licensed attorneys, themselves, or their close friends and/or relatives.

Thus, there is a strong incentive to go only against those judges who cannot hurt you or yours back - like the judiciary hurt me.

A lesson taught well.