Michigan judge loses docket after she's recorded insulting gays and Black people
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A suburban Detroit judge is no longer handling cases after a court official turned over recordings of her making anti-gay insults and referring to Black people as lazy.

A suburban Detroit judge is no longer handling cases after a court official turned over recordings of her making anti-gay insults and referring to Black people as lazy.

Oakland County Probate Judge Kathleen Ryan was removed from her docket on Aug. 27 for unspecified misconduct. Now the court’s administrator has stepped forward to say he blew the whistle on her, secretly recording their phone calls.

“I just want to make it right. … I want to keep my job and do it in peace,” Edward Hutton told WXYZ-TV. “And I want the people in Oakland County that come to court to get a fair shake, to have their day in court, to have an unbiased trier of fact.”

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    21·
    3 months ago

    “I’m not systemically racist. I’m a new racist,” said Ryan

    Still getting paid too. Be a racist officer (of the court), get caught - Free Vacation! Jägerbombs all ‘round!

    • SeaJ@lemm.ee
      13·
      3 months ago

      Jesus. I thought you were exaggerating with that quote. Nope. She just out and out admits she is a piece of shit.

      • Cort@lemmy.world
        11·
        3 months ago

        Yeah, I didn’t believe either of you so I went and checked for myself.

        “I’m not systemically racist. I’m a new racist,” said Ryan, who was first elected in 2010.

        Holy fuck, she fucking said it.

    • mindbleach
      3·
      3 months ago

      Every fucking bigot claims they’re doing something novel, because the conservative worldview is eternally fresh laundering of the same old shit. They just make up their reputation as-they-please. “We’ve always been the steady hand guiding everything decent, but now other people have gone too far, so we require transformative violence to–” et cetera.