JustASC

I missed this one, about a NJ judge who made a joking reference to the pro-Nazi Bund:

Superior Court Judge William Wertheimer, who hears civil cases in Union County, in April was presiding over a jury trial at which the plaintiff’s lawyer, William Gold, advised he needed to leave by 4 p.m. because it was the first night of Passover and he planned to attend a Seder, according to the complaint.

With the jury present but in a sidebar with lawyers, Wertheimer reportedly asked the attorneys if he should tell jurors the trial would conclude for the day so one or both lawyers could attend a “Bund meeting” – a reference to a 1930s anti-Semitic group in America that promoted Adolf Hitler’s regime.

The state Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct filed a formal complaint, saying the judge “ violated four aspects of the judicial code of conduct, by creating the appearance of an ethnic and religious bias and not acting in a manner that promotes confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the courts.”