Scott County Judge Reprimanded

Judge Rex Stacey was publicly reprimanded by the Minnesota Board on Judicial Standards on Tuesday, because they said he had made accusatory, hostile and discourteous comments to litigants in two separate cases. And this is not the first time he has been reprimanded.

In a Star Tribune story, the board found that in March 2015 he reportedly told a woman  seeking a protection order against the father of her children that she needed counseling. That her kids were suffering not because of the father, but because of her.

And about a year after that, Stacey told a father he should be ashamed because he was pumping his children for information about their mother.

Further discipline could happen if he repeats his conduct, according to statements in the reprimand.

He was appointed in 1996. And he has been reprimanded both publicly and privately before. In 2007, the Supreme Court publicly reprimanded Stacey for dismissing a traffic ticket issued to a court clerk’s husband. and in 2014 he was admonished for walking out during cross-examination at a trial.