The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct announced on Tuesday that a state judge has been permanently barred from the bench after the commission filed a complaint over a threatening Facebook post that “conveyed racial and/or political bias.”
The official complaint shows that Altona Town Court Justice Kyle Canning had posted in February an image of a noose with text that read “IF WE WANT TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN WE WILL HAVE TO MAKE EVIL PEOPLE FEAR PUNISHMENT AGAIN.”
According to the commission’s press release, Canning resigned in June after the commission served him the complaint regarding the post and has agreed “never to seek or accept judicial office at any time in the future.”
Commission Administrator Robert Tembeckjian described the noose as an “incendiary image” with “repugnant racial connotations” in the press release.
“It is the very antithesis of law and justice,” Tembeckjian said. “For a judge to use the image of the noose in making a political point undermines the integrity of the judiciary and public confidence in the courts.”
Read the commission’s documents below:
Has he or will he likely also be disbarred? It is a victory that he is banned from the bench but he can still practice law unless disbarred.
I think all MAGA judges should repost his post on their own personal pages in solidarity…
How did this ‘judge’ even get into office? Was he elected? Was he appointed? Don’t we have standards anymore?
He was never BARRED in the first place! I looked him up online. The dumb SOB’s main occupation is as a delivery driver for a bakery! He only took the job of “town justice” (I assume the equivalent of a Justice Court Judge) to supplement his income as it pays around $9,000 a year.
and yet here you are, at the forefront of the american fascist movement, threatening those you refer to as ‘evil people’ while seemingly oblivious to the racism, bigotry, intolerance and downright cruelty of your own chosen ideology.
or do you mean that the absence of racism, bigotry, intolerance and downright cruelty constitutes evil?