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.”

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    10 days ago

    As a probate judge would she have convictions?

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      10 days ago

      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.