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Recently I wrote about a Utah Polygamist Judge‘s removal case. In today’s Deseret News, it looks like the Judicial Conduct Commission (JCC), which investigates allegations of misconduct by judges, has recommended the high court remove Steed from the bench, where he has served for 25 years in the primarily polygamous community of Hildale.

Tapestry Against Polygamy, a Utah group of women who are former polygamist wives and help other women to leave that lifestyle, filed the complaint against Steed.

Bigamy is a third degree felony. The Utah Supreme Court will now have to decide if the law will be upheld.

A polygamist judge, who is being sought for removal from the bench by the Judicial Conduct Commission, says it is his constitutional right to practice consensual bigamy.

The Judge, Walter Steed, has three wives and 32 children.

The Commission’s reason for seeking removal of the Judge is that he is violating the state’s bigamy laws.

Not only is Steed breaking the law, he is taxing our planet’s resources by increasing the population in such volume. That is totally irresponsible.