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Judge requests misconduct review after racist email about Obama
Source: Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Washington A judicial misconduct review has been opened against the chief federal judge in Montana for using his computer in his courthouse chambers to forward a racially insensitive email about President Obama.
The review was launched at the request of the judge, Richard Cebull, as calls mounted Thursday for his resignation and legal ethics experts predicted the incident probably would result in Cebull receiving some kind of public admonishment.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-montana-judge-review-racist-email-20120301,0,1618818.story
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Judge requests misconduct review after racist email about Obama (Original Post)
jaysunb
Mar 2012
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blm
(113,091 posts)1. Arrest him for arrested development.
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eyewall
(674 posts)2. He blew it
he should be smarter than that.
Get rid of him, he disgraces the entire judiciary.
benld74
(9,909 posts)3. It wasn't HIS computer, he didnt OWN it. thats #1. #2 big ethics violation #3,,,,,,
Obamacare
(277 posts)4. Thank God, something has to be done!!
I say impeach him!
peacebird
(14,195 posts)5. How can any non- white defendant feel comfortable having such a blatant racist as their judge?