What the media isn’t telling you.
You’ve probably seen this story. What you probably haven’t seen is the context because it’s unfavorable to the party that controls the news. But by now, most people know that when there is a scandal without a party ID, it’s the party that the media belongs to. And that certainly appears to be the case in this story.
A federal judge and a high-ranking police official are at the center of allegations involving sexual encounters inside the judge’s chambers during work hours, according to a newly released judicial misconduct order.
According to the report, employees working in the judge’s office told investigators they could hear sounds through the walls that they believed were sexual encounters taking place inside chambers. Investigators said the incidents allegedly occurred over a two-year period and involved at least five encounters.
The investigative report does not publicly identify the judge or the police officer involved. However, multiple sources confirmed to Channel 2 that the individuals referenced are U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross and Atlanta Police Deputy Chief Kelley Collier.
The order also alleges Ross attended a primary election victory party for a district attorney on May 21, 2024, despite federal rules prohibiting judges from participating in political activities. A source provided Channel 2 a photo that appears to show Ross at the event.
This is bad behavior, but post-Clinton, it’s also the sort of thing we no longer tend to do anything about. And it’s not even in the top 10 or 100 destructive and abusive things that federal judges have done, which we’ve profiled in the Judicial Accountability Project.
Whether Ross did or didn’t have sex with an Atlanta deputy police chief in her chambers, the Obama appointee did play a role in paving the way for the rigging of the 2020 election in the 2018 midterms.
US District Court Judge Eleanor Ross for the Northern District of Georgia imposed the emergency injunction to this specific issue, arising from a lawsuit regarding Georgia’s “exact match” process, which requires identification information on voter registration to match precisely what is listed within the Georgia Department of Driver Services or the Social Security Administration.
According to the order, the “exact match” rule could affect approximately 51,111 individuals who have been flagged by the State of Georgia as “ineligible to vote due to alleged errors with their voter registration information.” For about 3,100 of these 51,111, the reason is due to a citizenship status question, and they specifically are the target of the injunction.
Exact match was mostly dismantled before the 2020 election. Biden won Georgia by 11,779 votes.
This seems a good deal more important than Ross’ current ‘matching’ problem.
There’s now debate about whether Judge Ross can be disciplined over her alleged sexual misconduct. Judicial discipline tends to be worthless, as we’ve found with the Judicial Accountability Project, but a judge can be removed from the bench for ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’. And if you think that doesn’t apply to what Ross is accused of, the first federal judge to be impeached was impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors for drunkenness on the bench.
Article posted with permission from Daniel Greenfield
