View Comments LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Jefferson Circuit Court judge was sanctioned for his choice of words in defending another judge accused of "rubber-stamping" search warrants in the Breonna Taylor case. The Judicial Conduct Commission said Judge Charles Cunningham in a guest editorial in The Courier Journal violated an ethics rule that requires judges to be “patient, dignified and courteous to lawyers and others with whom the judge deals in an official capacity.” The commission said Cunningham, in his piece defending Circuit Judge Mary Shaw, violated a portion of the rule that prohibits members of the judiciary from making public statements that might “reasonably be expected to impair the fairness of a matter pending in any court.”