{"id":1397467,"date":"2023-12-17T17:07:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T17:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=0498f45b5d0ef7cf74234ca8debc0c62"},"modified":"2023-12-17T17:07:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T17:07:15","slug":"high-state-courts-are-rife-with-ethics-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/12\/17\/high-state-courts-are-rife-with-ethics-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"High State Courts Are Rife With Ethics Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2015, a North Carolina Supreme Court justice has heard at least six cases involving the massive utility Duke Energy, a company in which he and his wife had a direct financial stake. In each of the cases, Paul Newby &mdash; chief justice since 2021 &mdash; sided with the utility. North Carolina&rsquo;s Code of Judicial Conduct states that &ldquo;a judge should disqualify himself\/herself in a proceeding in which the...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/high-state-courts-are-rife-with-ethics-concerns\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/high-state-courts-are-rife-with-ethics-concerns\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many state high court justices make their own decisions about recusal, with virtually no opportunity for review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18689,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7546,10092,10342,55312,462,4721,1369],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397468,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397467\/revisions\/1397468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}