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The Supreme Court has ordered a 20th Circuit judge to receive a public reprimand after he admitted improperly supporting an attorney’s 2020 campaign for county judge.
In a unanimous May 15 opinion, justices approved a stipulated agreement between the Judicial Qualifications Commission and Judge Scott Cupp.
“Judge Cupp admits that his conduct making unsolicited contact with many influential members of the Hendry County community, during which he expressed his preference for a certain candidate in a judicial race, and in some instances requested that the community member support his favored candidate, was not only inappropriate, but violated Canons of Judicial Conduct 1, 2B, and 7A(1)(b) and damaged the integrity of the judiciary by creating the appearance that he was interceding in a judicial election,” the opinion states.
