NJ Judge Facing Facebook Ethics Breach Said Posts ‘Sicken’ Him

Everyone in the New Jersey Supreme Court hearing room agreed the judge should be punished—even the judge himself. The question for New Jersey ethics officials, handling a judicial violation over a string of biased Facebook posting for the first time, was how hard the state should crack down.

Point Pleasant Municipal Judge Robert M. LePore told the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct that attention brought to his various social media posts praising law enforcement, criticizing a state law providing bail for low-income citizens, and approval of conservative politician campaigns “sickened him.” But he and his counsel urged the court to ...