{"id":153719,"date":"2026-06-03T15:32:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/03\/sex-in-chambers-met-with-slap-on-wrist\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T15:32:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:32:49","slug":"sex-in-chambers-met-with-slap-on-wrist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/03\/sex-in-chambers-met-with-slap-on-wrist\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex In Chambers Met With Slap On Wrist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge carried on a two-year affair with a high-ranking law enforcement officer by <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/federal-judge-had-sex-in-chambers-bringing-new-meaning-to-gavel-bang\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">having sex in chambers and lying about it to investigators<\/a>. The Eleventh Circuit responded with a private reprimand, concealing the judge\u2019s identity. But the judges didn\u2019t think through their anonymization strategy nearly well enough and <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/judiciary-tried-to-hide-sex-in-chambers-judges-name-it-left-a-roadmap-to-identify-eleanor-ross-instead\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI cracked the case in minutes<\/a>, revealing Judge Eleanor Ross of the Northern District of Georgia. Meanwhile, in lawyer ethics, <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/todd-blanche-faces-new-york-bar-complaint-after-federal-judge-flags-vindictive-prosecution\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a bar complaint in New York focuses on Todd Blanche<\/a>, citing the ruling out of Tennessee finding a presumptively vindictive prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. And down in Florida, the scores of former judges and other professionals behind the complaint against Pam Bondi \u2014 that Florida previously punted, claiming that it couldn\u2019t investigate a sitting Attorney General \u2014 renewed the call, noting that Bondi may be many things, but <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/new-ethics-complaint-reminds-florida-bar-that-pam-bondi-isnt-attorney-general-anymore\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she\u2019s definitely not the Attorney General anymore<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/06\/sex-in-chambers-met-with-slap-on-wrist\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sex In Chambers Met With Slap On Wrist<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge carried on a two-year affair with a high-ranking law enforcement officer by <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/federal-judge-had-sex-in-chambers-bringing-new-meaning-to-gavel-bang\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">having sex in chambers and lying about it to investigators<\/a>. The Eleventh Circuit responded with a private reprimand, concealing the judge\u2019s identity. But the judges didn\u2019t think through their anonymization strategy nearly well enough and <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/judiciary-tried-to-hide-sex-in-chambers-judges-name-it-left-a-roadmap-to-identify-eleanor-ross-instead\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI cracked the case in minutes<\/a>, revealing Judge Eleanor Ross of the Northern District of Georgia. Meanwhile, in lawyer ethics, <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/todd-blanche-faces-new-york-bar-complaint-after-federal-judge-flags-vindictive-prosecution\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a bar complaint in New York focuses on Todd Blanche<\/a>, citing the ruling out of Tennessee finding a presumptively vindictive prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. And down in Florida, the scores of former judges and other professionals behind the complaint against Pam Bondi \u2014 that Florida previously punted, claiming that it couldn\u2019t investigate a sitting Attorney General \u2014 renewed the call, noting that Bondi may be many things, but <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/new-ethics-complaint-reminds-florida-bar-that-pam-bondi-isnt-attorney-general-anymore\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she\u2019s definitely not the Attorney General anymore<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge carried on a two-year affair with a high-ranking law enforcement officer by having sex in chambers and lying about it to investigators. The Eleventh Circuit responded with a private reprimand, concealing the judge\u2019s identity. But the judges didn\u2019t think through their anonymization strategy nearly well enough and AI cracked the case in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":153720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-1226388555-scaled-BKPXHP.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}