An Alabama judge has been suspended after she was accused of making racial remarks about a white court clerk and postponing critical hearings for patients committed in hospitals so that she could walk her dogs, according to court docs.
Probate Judge Yashiba Blanchard is facing dozens of allegations of incompetence in her courtroom and creating a chaotic backlog of cases, with one attorney begging for a hearing to go on as scheduled because he was concerned that their client was “going to die.”
Blanchard, who was allegedly consistently late to court, did not hear a single case related to involuntary commitments until nine months into her term — leaving patients languishing in hospital mental wards, according to the complaint filed by the Judicial Inquiry Commission.
“Judge Blanchard told her staff on one occasion that she was late to her involuntary commitment docket because she had three dogs to walk,” the complaint states.
They can’t do right to save their ass. Give them some authority and it goes to their head
They’re all alike!