A suburban Detroit judge is no longer handling cases after a court official turned over recordings of her making anti-gay insults and referring to Black people as lazy.

Oakland County Probate Judge Kathleen Ryan was removed from her docket on Aug. 27 for unspecified misconduct. Now the court’s administrator has stepped forward to say he blew the whistle on her, secretly recording their phone calls.

“I just want to make it right. … I want to keep my job and do it in peace,” Edward Hutton told WXYZ-TV. “And I want the people in Oakland County that come to court to get a fair shake, to have their day in court, to have an unbiased trier of fact.”

  • @TheEtherBunny
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    Respect to Hutton for stepping forward and pushing back against bigotry.

  • @NocturnalMorning
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    Lower courts held to a higher standard than the Supreme Court. How fun for us.

      • @AngryCommieKender
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        The Probate Division manages decedents’ estates, trusts, guardianship of minors, and conservatorship of adults who are unable to provide for their personal needs or manage their financial resources.

        Doesn’t look like it, but Brittany Spears can tell you about the other horrors this bigot would have been able to serve up as “punishments.”

        All her assets neet to be seized and audited. I guarantee this piece of shit has stolen from mentally challenged kids and adults.

  • @[email protected]
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    292 months ago

    I want to keep my job and do it in peace

    Good luck. Doing the right thing often does not have that result.

  • Optional
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    212 months ago

    “I’m not systemically racist. I’m a new racist,” said Ryan

    Still getting paid too. Be a racist officer (of the court), get caught - Free Vacation! Jägerbombs all ‘round!

    • SeaJ
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      132 months ago

      Jesus. I thought you were exaggerating with that quote. Nope. She just out and out admits she is a piece of shit.

      • @Cort
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        Yeah, I didn’t believe either of you so I went and checked for myself.

        “I’m not systemically racist. I’m a new racist,” said Ryan, who was first elected in 2010.

        Holy fuck, she fucking said it.

    • Maeve
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      92 months ago

      Tbf, our prisons aren’t by any stretch of the imagination “reasonable.”

  • @[email protected]
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    72 months ago

    This is APPALLING! If we allow this to Stand then Maybe in a couple Decades we won’t even allow Judges to take MULTI MILLION DOLLAR BRIBES FROM THE PEOPLE BRINGING CASES BEFORE THEM! Sickening!

  • andrew_bidlaw
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    32 months ago

    That’s hard to hold personal biases after seeing all kinds of people doing shitty things. It’s natural for us to form them as we optinize our workflow, right, but toward such general groups like The Blacks © and The Gays ™? She inherited them and consciously kept them in her. I don’t know how it affected her judgement in court, but at the very least saying stuff like that doesn’t sit right with her job, even if it’s said in person. It’s like a surgeon telling an anecdote of them not washing hands after using a toilet.

  • @NOT_RICK
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    12 months ago

    lol she would be a Kathy, feel like that’s up there with Karen

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)
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    I can’t wait to see a recording of a male judge uttering the same thing and getting the same outcome … right?