[FoxNews] U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon filed a motion Friday seeking the recusal of Atlanta U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross from a key election-integrity case after Ross admittedly – and illegally – attended a partisan Democrat fundraiser for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Obviously, Ross’ attendance makes clear she isn't impartial.
But this is just the beginning of Ross’s legal troubles. Indeed, news recently emerged that she defiled and dishonored her position by admittedly having years of extramarital sexual relations with Atlanta deputy police chief Kelley Collier in her chambers during work hours–trysts overheard by her staff.
| Ick. The things one would rather not know about one’s colleagues. |
She lied about it when caught. She retaliated against her staff who reported it.
Yet this egregious workplace sexual misconduct, lying and obstruction of justice resulted in her receiving a mere private reprimand -- a woefully lenient and inadequate disciplinary action — from the federal judiciary. Ross should either resign or face impeachment from Congress for her egregious misconduct. She should also face federal criminal prosecution for lying to federal investigators.
The Atlanta Police Department has many cases before Ross’s court. Collier, Ross’s regular courthouse booty call, is a nearly 30-year veteran who runs the Community Services Division and is married. It was only through "happenstance," according to the Eleventh Circuit Judicial Council, that Ross did not preside over any cases involving that division while their affair was ongoing. Avoiding a clear and predictable conflict of interest through luck alone doesn’t absolve Ross. Nothing suggests that, had Ross received such a case assignment, she would have terminated the affair. Ross is also married; her husband is DeKalb County Circuit Judge Brian Ross.
| And what does Hizzoner think about this foofaraw? |
The affair took place in close proximity to her law clerks, young lawyers for whom Ross was supposed to serve as a role model. Indeed, a former law clerk reported the affair to disciplinary authorities. Ross used her judicial chambers to conduct the sexual relationship. And this wasn’t a one time slip-up. This egregious sexual misconduct occurred over the course of several years, from 2023 until 2025. Ross cursed at staff when they lodged appropriate objections to her illegal behavior. Retaliatory behavior against a whistleblower who reported a judge’s wrongdoing has no place in our federal judiciary.
Ross, appointed by former President Obama,
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also attended the political event for Willis, the legal embarrassment who secured a sweeping, lawless, politically-motivated indictment against President Trump and nearly 20 other defendants in 2023. The courts later disqualified Willis after news emerged that she had also maintained an inappropriate workplace sexual relationship with a special prosecutor on the case, Nathan Wade.
| “I just wanted to fit in with the office culture, donchaknow.” |
Ross attended a party to celebrate Willis’s victory in a Democrat primary. Ethical canons forbid judges from attending such partisan political events.
| Yes, well ethics. So old fashioned! |
"It takes a village." Beehive hut photo here please. |