Judge who attended Fani Willis campaign event recuses from DOJ voting lawsuit
The Justice Department said her attendance at a Fani Willis event created an appearance of bias in the election-records case.
- U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross received a "private reprimand" after an investigation confirmed she engaged in sexual activity in chambers with a police officer, attended a partisan event, and initially lied about the allegations.
- William Pryor, chief judge of the 11th Judicial Circuit, initiated the investigation last fall after one of Ross's law clerks reported multiple instances of sexual activity in the judge's office during working hours.
- In a letter dated Thursday, Ross wrote that her "actions were patently wrong, and there is no excuse," conveying "deepest apologies" to a former law clerk she had previously falsely accused.
- Two Georgia congressmen filed separate impeachment resolutions last week against Ross, leaving the House Judiciary Committee to decide whether to initiate formal impeachment proceedings.
- Ross recused herself from a case involving Georgia election records after the Justice Department questioned her impartiality due to her attendance at a campaign event for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who prosecuted President Donald Trump.
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US judge steps aside from DOJ's Georgia voter rolls case amid misconduct scandal
A federal judge on Tuesday disqualified herself from hearing the U.S. Department of Justice's bid to force the state of Georgia to turn over a copy of its non-public voter registration list after she was reprimanded for having sex with a police officer in her chambers and for attending a political event.
Obama judge found to have lied walks away from voter-roll lawsuit * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
A federal judge nominated by Barack Obama was found by a court to have lied when she claimed a law clerk made up stories about her apparently loud sex in her chambers. And two members of Congress have started a move to impeach Eleanor Ross. But that’s not why lawyers demanded that she be removed from a case over voter roll issues in the state of Georgia. That’s because she blatantly attended a campaign event for Fani Willis, the Fulton County di…
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