Sex In Chambers Met With Slap On Wrist | Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer
About this episode
The episode discusses a federal judge's affair and the subsequent legal repercussions, alongside bar complaints in New York and Florida.
A federal judge carried on a two-year affair with a high-ranking law enforcement officer by having sex in chambers and lying about it to investigators. The Eleventh Circuit responded with a private reprimand, concealing the judge's identity. But the judges didn't think through their anonymization strategy nearly well enough and AI cracked the case in minutes, revealing Judge Eleanor Ross of the Northern District of Georgia. Meanwhile, in lawyer ethics, a bar complaint in New York focuses on Todd Blanche, citing the ruling out of Tennessee finding a presumptively vindictive prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. And down in Florida, the scores of former judges and other professionals behind the complaint against Pam Bondi -- that Florida previously punted, claiming that it couldn't investigate a sitting Attorney General -- renewed the call, noting that Bondi may be many things, but she's definitely not the Attorney General anymore. Subscribe to Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer: https://play.megaphone.fm/lpff6i7nq9wlb-pkdudwtw Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
People in this episode
Host: Above the Law
Topics covered
- judicial ethics
- legal reprimand
- law enforcement
- AI in legal investigations
- bar complaints
- Florida Attorney General
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Eleventh Circuit, Todd Blanche, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Pam Bondi, Florida
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