Judge Eleanor Ross Sends 2nd Apology to 6 Former Clerks as Censure Calls Grow
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Updated · The New York Times · Jun 12
Judge Eleanor Ross Sends 2nd Apology to 6 Former Clerks as Censure Calls Grow
2 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jun 12
Summary
Judge Eleanor Ross sent a second round of apology letters this week to six former clerks, calling her conduct “patently wrong” and saying she had “no excuse.”
The new letters followed complaints that her earlier three-sentence apologies were too brief and vague after the 11th Circuit’s judicial council ordered her to apologize.
A judicial inquiry last month ended in a private reprimand over a yearslong affair with a police commander in her chambers and allegations that she let clerks handle work she then rubber-stamped.
The case has since drawn a chief judge’s rebuke, public calls for censure and impeachment, and renewed scrutiny of a federal judicial discipline system that largely relies on judges policing judges.