S 295 · 96th Congress ·
Judicial Tenure Act
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Introduced2
Committee3
Senate Vote4
House5
EnactedLatest: Referred to Senate Committee on the Judiciary.(1979-01-31)
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Judicial Tenure Act - Establishes a 12-member Judicial Conduct and Disability Commission, consisting of one member from each judicial circuit and one member selected collectively by the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, Court of Claims, and the Customs Court, to receive complaints filed by any person with respect to the condition or conduct of a judge, or the conduct of a Justice, of the United States appointed to hold office during good behavior. Requires each circuit, the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, Court of Claims, and the Customs Court to have a committee of judges to receive and review complaints against judges of their circuits or courts transmitted from the Commission. Directs the Commission to dismiss any complaint which it finds to be improperly verified or subscribed, frivolous, or lacking jurisdiction, and to investigate any complaints against a Supreme Court Justice which is not so dismissed. Directs the appropriate committee of judges, upon receipt of a complaint from the Commission, to determine the existence of any grounds specified: (1) in existing law for the involuntary retirement of a judge, or (2) in this Act for the removal or censure of a judge. Au…
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