Topeka ? An Andover man who has called for the removal of all members of the Kansas Supreme Court has filed a complaint against the court with the Commission on Judicial Qualifications.

Richard Peckham, chairman and general counsel of Kansas Judicial Watch, said the judges should be disciplined by the commission for gathering information related to the school finance lawsuit.

Ron Keefover, a spokesman for the court, said Peckham’s allegations were “frivolous.”

Justice Lawton Nuss already faces a disciplinary hearing for speaking with two senators about a school finance bill despite a lawsuit over the matter pending before the court.

In his answer to allegations against him before the commission, Nuss said he was monitoring school finance legislation, a practice that was consistent with other court members, and that other justices received copies of an education cost study.

Peckham says justices aren’t allowed to gather information on their own separate from what has been entered in the record of the case.

“Every trial judge in every county and state in the nation admonishes the jury before leaving court for the night during the pendency of a trial, to refrain from conducting independent investigations before returning to the courtroom. The justices of the Kansas Supreme Court are bound by the same ethical standard,” Peckham said.

His complaint is filed against each justice except Nuss, whose disciplinary hearing before the commission is Aug. 10.

But Keefover said justices are allowed to take notice of the legislative history of legislation in order to establish the intent of the Legislature.

Peckham’s group, Kansas Judicial Watch, wants to overturn the current system of appointing judges and replace it with the election of judges.