This isn’t the first time Dare County’s chief superior court judge has flexed his office’s muscle. In 2013, the Judicial Standards Commission reprimanded Tillett for trying to oust the Kill Devil Hills police chief after the cops detained his son for an unspecified reason. Tillett’s “overly aggressive conduct” and “misuse of the powers of his judicial office … brought the judiciary into disrepute and threatened public faith and confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary,” the Judicial Standards Commission wrote.

That judge sounds like he needs to lose his job … now.