Tuesday, 2 February 2021

Notoriously sexist and racist federal judge kicked off discrimination case

Meet U.S. District Judge Lynn N. Hughes, whose vocal sexism is so relentless it's made of him a rare beast: a federal judge kicked off a case by his superiors.

A judge with a history of belittling women has been yanked from a sex discrimination case by an appellate panel that said he "suffocated" a female plaintiff's access to fundamental fairness.

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