The state’s judicial watchdog is moving forward on an ethics charge against a Broward judge whose campaign for office last year relied in part on fabricated allegations of judicial misconduct in another county.

County Judge Lauren Peffer was elected to office last August after a campaign in which she focused on the need to restore public confidence in the judiciary. As evidence of the lack of public trust, Peffer promoted a book criticizing the judiciary in Orlando, a self-published diatribe by a disgruntled former employee who also posted fake recordings implicating the Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court and the Chief Judge of the 11th Circuit Court of Florida in inappropriate and unprofessional conduct.

The state’s Judicial Qualifications Commission, which polices cases of ju

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