A New Jersey judge who faces ethics charges for posting a series of TikTok videos says in an answer that his actions merit an admonition—at most.

Posting 40 videos on the social media platform “constituted a permissible exercise of his First Amendment right to engage in such conduct on his personal device” because it was done in a manner that was “disconnected from his actual identity and professional life,” Bergen County Superior Court Judge Gary Wilcox said in response to charges from the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct.