The Alaska Court System fired a magistrate judge in Seward who wrote a public letter criticizing the Republican Party:
“As a magistrate judge, the public entrusts you to decide cases with the utmost fairness, independence and impartiality. The power of your own voice, even when expressed off the bench, can become inextricably tied to your position, especially in a small community where you are the sole judicial officer,” Morse said.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy was not contacted about the decision to fire Peck, and his deputy communications director said the governor’s office was unaware of Peck’s letter or the firing until contacted for this article. Peck said he doesn’t regret the letter and said he was just “stating a fact that the Republican Party tried to overturn the election, which I think most people agree on.”“Clearly, they were justified in doing what they’re doing,” Peck said of his firing. “I just think they could have found a little better way to do it, but that’s up to them.”
They do not need to be lawyers and are appointed by a Superior Court judge, rather than the governor. Despite that difference, they must follow the sameas higher-level judges. That code states, in part, that a judge must act in a way that does not “cast reasonable doubt on the judge’s capacity to act impartially as a judge.”
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