Constitution of Connecticut (2025 publisher edition) — Amendment XI

Publisher edition notice: The publisher identifies this compilation as revised to January 1, 2025. It preserves the annotated original 1965 text and all ratified amendments, alongside the Revisors' unofficial convenience version incorporating extant amendments. The latter does not supersede the original Constitution and amendments; later changes have not been independently verified.

Amendment XI Ratified amendment and publisher annotations.

ARTICLE XI.*
*Adopted November 24, 1976.
Cited. 192 C. 704; 193 C. 180; 240 C. 157. Because Supreme Court is empowered to determine all matters of judicial
discipline in the first instance as well as upon appeal of the review council’s decisions, the court’s review of the review
council’s legal conclusions is de novo. 246 C. 183.
Cited. 42 CS 129.
(Judicial censure, removal or suspension. Judicial Review Council.)
Article fifth of the Constitution is amended by adding a new section to read as
follows:
In addition to removal by impeachment and removal by the governor on the address
of two-thirds of each house of the general assembly, judges of all courts, except those
courts to which judges are elected, may, in such manner as shall by law be prescribed,
be removed or suspended by the supreme court. The general assembly may establish a

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Art. XII AMENDMENTS TO THE 195
CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT
judicial review council which may also, in such manner as shall by law be prescribed,
censure any such judge or suspend any such judge for a definite period not longer than
one year.