Judicial Communications Integrity Act

The Judicial Communications Integrity Act is an open-source model federal statute governing official executive-agency communications about federal judges, federal courts, and judicial rulings.

The Act is designed as an internal official-communications standard for federal executive agencies. It preserves lawful executive-branch disagreement with judicial rulings through motions, appeals, briefing, public legal explanation, and other recognized channels, while requiring official agency communications to remain accurate, record-tethered, nonpersonal, and institutionally responsible.

The statute does not operate as a general speech code. It does not regulate private-capacity speech, campaign speech, academic commentary, journalistic commentary, civic commentary, court filings, legal briefs, oral argument, or ordinary public debate regarding judicial philosophy, constitutional interpretation, statutory meaning, public policy, court reform, judicial selection, or litigation strategy.

The Act defines official agency communication, agency adoption, covered judicial communication, prohibited denigrating statement, good-faith legal criticism, emergency public-safety communication, personal-capacity communication, and corrective communication. It establishes agency implementation duties, pre-publication review for high-risk covered communications, correction procedures, Inspector General review, record preservation, judicial-branch notice safeguards, annual reporting, emergency after-action review, whistleblower protection, and a no-private-right-of-action rule.

The proposal is also informed by the Structural Flow / Constitutional Physiology principle that institutional repair requires changed future carry. In this model, correction is not erasure: correction requires record preservation, public clarification, agency learning, and future-facing communications standards.