(ii) conduct hearings concerning such complaints, administer oaths and affirmations, issue process to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of evidence, and require persons to testify and produce evidence by granting them immunity from prosecution or from penalty or forfeiture.
(3) All proceedings, testimony, and evidence before the Commission shall be confidential and privileged, except as provided by rule of the Supreme Court of Maryland; the record and any proceeding filed with the Supreme Court of Maryland shall lose its confidential character, except as ordered by the Supreme Court of Maryland.
(4) No justice or judge shall participate as a member of the Commission in any proceedings involving that judge's own conduct, and the Governor shall appoint another judge as a substitute member of the Commission for those proceedings.
(5) The Supreme Court of Maryland shall prescribe by rule the means to implement and enforce the powers of the Commission and the practice and procedure before the Commission.
(2) A justice or judge removed under this section, and the judge's surviving spouse, shall have the rights and privileges accruing from the judge's judicial service only to the extent prescribed by the order of removal (amended by Chapter 82, Acts of 2021, ratified Nov. 8, 2022).
(3) A justice or judge retired under this section shall have the rights and privileges prescribed by law for other retired judges (amended by Chapter 82, Acts of 2021, ratified Nov. 8, 2022).
(4) No justice or judge of the Supreme Court of Maryland shall sit in judgment in any hearing involving that judge's own conduct (amended by Chapter 82, Acts of 2021, ratified Nov. 8, 2022).
