Judge Nancy Jacobs has been a witness when fighting ethics for more than 2022.

Tampa -Nancy Jacobs acknowledges that a successful campaign in 2022 for former Judge Hills Boro Jared Smith has made some different things.

She would have been able to monitor the comments that supporters made a light PAR about Smith. She would have been able to refrain from personal attacks.

But, as she testified in a tumper court on Monday morning, Jacobs has no attitude in her claim that Smith has prejudice against the Jews.

She was asked if Smith was again a judge.

“Yes, he’s right,” said Jacobs. “I was appointed.”

“And do you declare that he is still a prejudice anti -Jewish?” Brian Coffin asked.

“I certainly do that,” said Jacobs.

Jacobs testified for several hours on Monday, the first day of the hearing of whether or not she and her supporters violated the judicial ethics rules of various things, during the campaign and after the campaign.

The discipline case is one of the most unusual discussions in recent memories of local judicial races. The judicial campaign is officially indefinite and tended to be modest, but I saw candidates exchanging the party -like overtones and severe accusations.

Her anti -Semitic accusation has been related to a video indicating that Smith’s wife is talking about Jewish Jacobs on stage at an event in the Tampa Church. As her husband nodded, she said that Jacobs was “needed Jesus,” “Her heart is very hard for God,” and she is dominated by Satan.

According to Jacobs, the comments were clearly related to the Jewish religion.

“He nodded,” she said in court. “It shows me that he is actually prejudice and anti -Jewish.”

(Smith’s wife later wrote that her comment was not anti -Semitism, and she claimed that her husband respected the Jewish religion.)

Jacobs expressed his regrets on other statements, but many of what he said did not break the rules.

“I don’t think I had committed fraud,” she said. “I think I was in the boundary of the (justice) norm.”

Pregnancy abortion has become a big problem in the race. Smith has attracted a flood of controversy for the ruling he denied the demands of a 17 -year -old girl who had obtained abortion without his parents’ consent. The two members of the three court panels found that Smith had violated his judicial discretion and overturned his decision.

Smith lost in the August 2022 election from 52 % to 48 % Jacobs. However, a few months after his defeat, Governor Ron Desantis appointed him to the newly created 6th District Court Court.

Meanwhile, Florida’s Judicial Qualification Committee submitted accusations to Jacobs.

“We are here today to cope with the actions of what happened in the election,” said Henry Cox III, a special advisor to the committee, stated in a statement on Monday. 。 “It’s not about prejudice. It’s not about hatred.”

Jacobs’ lawyer Ryan Barak, in the opening statement, outlined the details behind a specific claim and urged panelists to examine the status of each statement.

“The context is important,” Barak repeatedly said.

Jacobs spoke gently through testimony, sometimes hung her hand on her face, and flipped over a binder with various social media posts and other documents copies from the campaign.

She acknowledged several mistakes and regretted the passage of the incident.

“It’s still the speed of the heart,” she said. “I have a night when I can’t sleep yet.”

The claim to her is about the comments posted on the public Facebook page of her campaign. The page appeared under the name of Jacobs, but she said that several people had the ability to access and post there.

Some of the comments quoted in court and cited by the supporters of Jacobs said that Smith was “Amy Connie Ballet Republican member” and “I believe there is no separation between the church and the state.” Included that religion is on the law. ” “

As soon as she noticed the comment, Jacobs said she defeated them, but it didn’t happen sometimes for weeks. She also noted that when he implemented the campaign, he practiced busy law and took care of his sick father.

Another post quoted in the committee accusation is “as if your spouse is an immigrant” or “as if your brother is homosexual”. It was explained.

Jacobs said they were not her words, but she shared her to the way they would have a fair shaking if they came to her court.

“I think it was all right,” she said.

“It’s my opinion, you want a judge,” she said. “People who are fair and are ready to listen to your story when they enter the court.”

She was asked about the support from planning parents who support the right of abortion and their knowledge that they could not accept the support from party organizations. She said she believed it was a non -party.

In the court, the committee lawyer read an excerpt from Jacobs’s previous testimony during a survey hearing. Since then she has been changing the song. After a legal investigation, she believed that many of the written things were protected as freedom of speech.

“I still have the right to fix,” she said.

Several claims are related to Jacobs’s journey and some of her colleagues.

Alicia Whiteing Bosic, at the same time as Jacobs, was a lawyer who failed for another judicial seat, and to run to Robin Hwson, a fellow judge who is not said to hate her. I testified that I recommended it. Jacobs said to the Whiteing Bogic that he had been running again and said that he mentioned some seats as the next election cycle.

However, Whiting Bosic said that Jacobs had especially told her to play against Hwson. She made her uncomfortable, saying that the conversation was troublesome.

“She said you should chase Hwson,” said Whiteing Bogic. “You need to run to him.”

The panels listening to Jacobs’ litigation include lawyers and two outsiders outside the town. They are West Palm Beach’s lawyer Gregory Coleman, former Florida President Bill Sawyino, Orlando Circuit Judge Alicia Latimore, Jackson Building Judge Gary Flower, Walter Lix and Eughn Heart of Ray members.

At the end of the hearing, the panel is expected to submit surveys and recommendations to the Supreme Court of Florida, from the office to the removal of Jacobs.

The hearing continues on Tuesday.