Re:English Language Article. (Score 2, Informative)

While I think you raise an interesting point, I'm not sure if your example really works. While a judge lobbying for tougher murder penalties might not be a conflict of interest, it could be evidence of bias in the sentencing of murder defendants. To put it another way, if a judge lobbied for more frequent use of the death penalty, a defendant sentenced to death might reasonably argue that the judge gave the sentence based on personal beliefs and not based on interpretation of the law.