---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 454"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "454"
heading: "Practice of law by justices and judges"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/454"
units:
  - "Part I — Organization of Courts"
  - "Chapter 21 — General Provisions Applicable to Courts and Judges"
---

# §454. Practice of law by justices and judges


Any justice or [judge](/usc/28/351.md?p=d-1) appointed under the authority of the United States who engages in the practice of law is guilty of a high misdemeanor.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 908.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 373 (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 231, § 258, 36 Stat. 1161).

Changes in phraseology were made.