As part of discipline that also included a 10-day suspension, Broward County Circuit Judge Stefanie Moon will go before the Florida Supreme Court on Sept. 9 for a public reprimand, the court said Tuesday.
Justices on July 17 ordered the suspension, reprimand and a $2,115 fine after Moon was accused of inappropriate campaign activity, prohibited political contributions and other wrongdoing.
The state Judicial Qualifications Commission, which investigates judicial conduct, alleged that Moon violated judicial canons by making political contributions, including to committees backing former Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, former President Joe Biden and ActBlue, a Democratic Party fundraising arm.
In addition, Moon was accused of reminding an attorney in court that he had not returned a phone call related to her re-election campaign and improperly contacting the therapist of a man who was a party in a case and whose mental health was an issue. The Supreme Court has ultimate disciplinary authority over judges.
–News Service of Florida
Dennis C Rathsam says
Cheaters, & liars are everywhere in the Jackass party. Now a judge…. That’s why the democrats have the lowest appruval rating in 35 years. Its all smoke & mirrors now, to hell with integrity!
richard says
sounds overtly political in nature t me. It certainly is grate to live in Florida.
R.S. says
That’s a matter of making a mountain out of a mole-hill, gentelemen! There are far worse culprits in government.
IllBUrHuckleberry says
@ R.S. – so what you’re saying is it’s ok to turn a blind eye on this judge for her conduct and fry bigger fish? No, you dish out the punishment as they come. They start out small and end up like Joe Biden, and we now know that was a disaster.
Survivor says
Someone in these comments said “smoking mirrors“ and that’s exactly what happened to me. I spent three separate days of trial spread out within eight months. As I sat there, and I heard Mrs. Moon’s decision I felt like I had been erased, like I didn’t matter And I was silenced. This is not about race. This is not about gender. This is not about politics. It’s about a flawed system. It’s about putting people in power that don’t have the knowledge and the competency to make these decisions. It’s about the lack of integrity that people nowadays don’t even know what that is so they use their power and abuse it. It’s about a fraud system and it’s about abuse of power and also misjudgment, bias, missing the writing on the wall because of all the smoking mirrors