{"id":155004,"date":"2026-06-17T15:52:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T23:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/17\/federal-judges-gone-wild\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T15:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T23:52:19","slug":"federal-judges-gone-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/17\/federal-judges-gone-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judges Gone Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Above the Law\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/06\/the-2026-atl-top-50-law-school-rankings-are-here\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top 50 Law School rankings<\/a> are out and a new school tops the list. But a number of other high prestige law schools have slipped out of the top 10\u2026 and it\u2019s mostly a matter of cost. Meanwhile, we have two federal judges out of control. Judge Ryan Nelson faces misdemeanor criminal charges <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/06\/ninth-circuit-judge-ryan-nelson-charged-with-battery-over-parking-lot-rumble\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">over a parking lot altercation<\/a>, which would be a bad look for a federal judge, but not nearly as egregious as his parking job. And we have more on the Eleanor Ross drama, after her initial \u201capology letters\u201d went public and prompted the Eleventh Circuit to find <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/06\/you-will-not-believe-the-apology-letter-judge-eleanor-ross-wrote-her-clerks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a new opportunity to look the other way<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/06\/federal-judges-gone-wild\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Judges Gone Wild<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Above the Law\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/06\/the-2026-atl-top-50-law-school-rankings-are-here\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top 50 Law School rankings<\/a> are out and a new school tops the list. But a number of other high prestige law schools have slipped out of the top 10\u2026 and it\u2019s mostly a matter of cost. Meanwhile, we have two federal judges out of control. Judge Ryan Nelson faces misdemeanor criminal charges <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/06\/ninth-circuit-judge-ryan-nelson-charged-with-battery-over-parking-lot-rumble\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">over a parking lot altercation<\/a>, which would be a bad look for a federal judge, but not nearly as egregious as his parking job. And we have more on the Eleanor Ross drama, after her initial \u201capology letters\u201d went public and prompted the Eleventh Circuit to find <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/06\/you-will-not-believe-the-apology-letter-judge-eleanor-ross-wrote-her-clerks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a new opportunity to look the other way<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/06\/federal-judges-gone-wild\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Judges Gone Wild<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above the Law\u2019s Top 50 Law School rankings are out and a new school tops the list. But a number of other high prestige law schools have slipped out of the top 10\u2026 and it\u2019s mostly a matter of cost. Meanwhile, we have two federal judges out of control. Judge Ryan Nelson faces misdemeanor criminal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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-155004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155004","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=155004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}