A judicial candidate may distribute business cards and campaign literature that include the candidate’s campaign website address, where the website has an online option to make contributions to the candidate’s campaign, according to a split Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee opinion.

Acting May 14 in Opinion Number: 2024-06, nine committee members said that would be permissible while three concluded it would not.

In the same inquiry, the committee held a judicial candidate may not use a cover photo on the candidate’s personal Facebook page that includes the candidate’s campaign website address, where the website has an online option to make contributions to the candidate’s campaign. The committee concluded that by a vote of 8 to 4.