Well, she's not getting the boot yet but a judicial watch comittee in GA wants to boot her out of office. This is what happens when you elect/appoint people base on DEI instead of merit...
https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/judicial-watchdog-wants-metro-atlanta-judge-off-the-bench/ASZO4XE7ONBMDA5HVN5JNWZGKE/Christina Peterson, first black female judge, elected as Probate Judge in Douglas County, GA. She's getting removed because of "Systematic Incompetence" due to her many, many ethic violation.
When she first got into the office, she demand to be paid $173,000/yr, equivalent to all other judges including the Chief Judge of Superior Court - the outgoing judge she was replacing was making $96,000/hr. She claimed she's just as qualified as all the other judges were. She compared herself to other judges and demand she get paid the same - her office handles 700 cases a year on average and (other judges handles 5,000 cases on average) mostly dealing with birth certificate, will and marriage licenses. Her claimed for not being paid like the rest is because she's black and a woman (sexism & racism). Well, you know where this is going... Since majority of the budget committee were Democrats, they voted with her and she's getting a whopping $125,000/yr salary... this does not include the fees (the judge can elect to keep all the fees) from births, marriages and death certificates (2021-2023 average is $130,000). So, in total she's banking almost $250,000+/yr making her the highest paid judge not just in Douglas County but all of GA. She's average more than the Chief Supreme Court Justice in Georgia who gets $216,000/yr. In her first year, she banked over $280,000.
But this is not all... she has about 50 ethic violation complaint against her - list is just some of the ethic violations:
- from jailing and fining a Thai woman that were married to a Black man - Peterson does not like Black man marrying other race. The case was heard when the Thai lady used her uncle's name on the marriage license because she didn't know her real dad's name (her mom and dad divorced when she was very young). Once she found out her dad's name, she went to get her marriage license change with his name on the license. The judge then ordered her to 20days in jail or pay a fine of $500 for contempt. The Thai lady was jailed and fine for just trying to amend her marriage license with her real dad's name on it. She was in jail for 2 days before her husband could pay the $500 fine.
- allows her friends to hold a wedding at the court after hour (on a Sat when the court house was closed), even though the security team and sheriff office told her she can not bring people into the courthouse without being screen first and especially after hour when no one is present - she did it anyway.
- putting inappropriate content in social media; sexualized content pretending to be a white man giving sexual advice to black women - she hates bi-racial marriages.
- soliciting donation to her cash app on her birthday (judges are banned from soliciting donation of any kind in public)- when confronted she claimed she thought it was posted to her private acct. not public as she was surprised that she got money from people she didn't know, she kept all moola anyway
- she was issued a county credit card to be used for county businesses but she abused that and used it for personal purchases without documentation or reason.
- She and a couple of people sued her HOA and won $70,000... but the other people never saw that $70,000 - she kept it all to herself.
- She was also abusive toward a fellow judge and other county officials, obstructed access to public records and had improper contact with a litigant, among other things.
The committee want to boot her out of office base on
Systemic Incompetence.. . judges are expected to act in a manner that promotes the integrity and impartiality of the Judiciary. Respondent (Judge Peterson) has shown that she cannot - or will not - do so.The GA Supreme Court will make it's decision soon - but she's already out there crying sexism and racism again. Isn't it great to just throw the 'race' card out since you're not a Whitie... As long as you play the race card, even guilty, it makes it harder to get punish - since no one wants to be painted as a racism because of it.
What makes this case stand out is that she's was part of the DEI Black women empowerment movement that brought in Fanis Willis, Letitia James, Tiffany A. Henyard, etc etc all of them currently running into corruption issues, abuse of power, etc etc
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