Constitutional Amendments (Arguments For and Against) Abridged

Brief Analysis of Proposed Constitutional Amendment 1:  Expand Judicial Standards Commission Membership

2012

Constitutional Amendment 1 proposes to amend Article 6, Section 32 of the Constitution of New Mexico by adding two members to serve on the Judicial Standards Commission ("Commission"), thereby increasing the membership from 11 to 13. The amendment specifies that one of the additional members must be a municipal judge who would serve a four-year term and would be selected in a manner established by the Legislature, and the other additional member must be a citizen, who is not also a justice, judge or magistrate of any court, nor licensed to practice law in this state, and who would serve a five-year term and would be appointed by the Governor.