The rumors are true! Misbehaving judges do, occasionally, face consequences for their actions. Well, they do if their behavior is wildly egregious and widely publicized, anyway.
And so it is that West Virginia's Louise E. Goldston stepped down from the bench after being publicly called out, penalized, and threatened with impeachment for behaving more like a bronze-age chieftain than what you might hope of a member of the U.S. judiciary. That's a good start to imposing some boundaries for behavior.
