The state's Judicial Investigations Commission said Chief 2nd Judicial Circuit Judge David Hummel put his gun on the bench and picked it up during proceedings in a civil case. The commission cited the gun incident and past unrelated ethics complaints in censuring Hummel for multiple violations of West Virginia's code of judicial conduct.
Mark Thompson, a county judge in Breckenridge, Colorado, was suspended in August for 30 days after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct for pointing an AR-15 at his adult stepson at home. Before the incident he was chief judge in the state's 5th Judicial District. Thompson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In 2021, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, judge Scott Woldt was suspended for a week in part for showing his handgun to a group of students visiting his courtroom years earlier. A representative for Woldt did not immediately return requests for comment.
For us plebs, that's called brandishing a firearm