【注释】 ①在少数州对法官职位构成威胁的还有议会票决（legislative address）和罢免投票（recall election）。
② Molly McDonough, Bench Battle Become Vocal , 89 ABA Journal, 20 (May 2003).
③ 本文未称之为“道德准则”或“道德法典”，原因是考虑到道德一词常给人较为软化的感觉，以为违反了道德只会受舆论谴责，或仅受很轻的处罚。但这种理解与违反司法行为准则的后果有很大出入，因为违反此准则会并不鲜见地导致失去法官职位。而且此准则之英文名称中本无ethics之用语。
④ Peter Ryan , Cousels,Councils and Lunch:Preventing Abuse of the Power to Appoint Independent Counsels, 144 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 2537 ( June 96)
⑤ Mark Hansen ,Judicial Tightrope, 83 ABA Journal 105 (April 97).
⑥ Id.(同上)
⑦ Model Code of Judicial Conduct，2000 Edition，Cannon 2A，Commentary.
⑧ Leslie W. Abramson , Appearance ofImpropriety: Deciding When a Judge’s Impartiality ’ Might ResonableBe Questioned’ , 14 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 55 ( Fall 2000).
⑨ 为了解决这个问题，有人试图对
宪法中的“轻罪”一词作扩大解释，以涵盖“不当行为”之义。See Thomas L. Jipping，A History of Judicial Impeachment，Washington Times, March 25, 1997.
⑩Dennis Shea , Impeaching Abusive Judges, Policy Review, Issue 83, 62 (May/Jun 97).
11 Model Code of Judicial Conduct pmbl. (1990).
12 Sambhav N.Sankar, Disciplining the Professional Judge, 88 California Law Review 1233,1259 (July 2000).
13 Wendy Zentz, Impeachment Nears, 74 ABA Journal 26 (September 1988).
14 Judicial Discipline to Be Examined , Washington Post,May 26, 2004.
15纽约是唯一将对法官的惩戒权分散在四个中间上诉法院的州，美国律师协会曾建议它统一在一个法院中。 See N.Y.Discipline Tangle，69 ABA Journal 278 ( March 83).
16 Sambhav N.Sankar, Disciplining the Professional Judge, .88 California Law Review 1233,1237 (July 2000).
17 New Hampshire Constitution Art38.
18 Arkansas Constitution Art 15.
19 Constitution of Alabama of 1901，Amendment No.581，Sec.6.17(b)
20 NewYork Judicial Law ，Article 2-A,44.1
21 New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct, 2003 Annual Report.，available at : http://www.scjc.state.ny.us/Publications/ 2003_annual_report.htm.
