State Ombudsman for Judges Judge Asher Kula closed a series of ethics complaints against Supreme Court President Isaac Amit on Wednesday, finding just one of 10 against the top judge to be justified but not worthy of disciplinary action.

The lone complaint that Kula said was justified was that Amit should have recused himself from a case that had the potential to benefit his brother.

Kula dismissed the nine other complaints against the justice, many of which were filed just before Amit was appointed president of the court in January 2025.

The ombudsman said some of the complaints should never have been submitted at all, in one instance asserting that the organization that submitted the complaint “simply threw claims with no substance out into the air.”

In other cases, Kula said it would have been better for Amit to have taken certain actions to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, even if none actually existed.

Kula also rejected a much-publicized complaint against Amit regarding alleged building violations by the judge and criticized those who had labeled Amit “a construction criminal,” determining that the allegations were false and that such claims had done “a significant injustice” to Amit and his family.

The ombudsman further noted, pointedly, that the complaints against Amit were based on “reviews of thousands of judicial decisions he issued” as a lower court and Supreme Court judge.

The complaints were almost all submitted by right-wing legal advocacy organizations, which apparently conducted such reviews. Amit himself had previously alleged that the complaints were part of a concerted effort to delegitimize his candidacy for Supreme Court president.

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