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jimfields33

(15,836 posts) Mon Jun 29, 2020, 01:00 PM Jun 2020

Federal Chief Judge Steps Down After Racially Insensitive Remarks

They are coming out of the woodwork. Not even hiding it anymore. Good riddance to this judge. Glad he is stepping down immediately.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/federal-chief-judge-steps-down-after-racially-insensitive-remarks/2387676/

The chief judge of the Central District of California, which includes Los Angeles and neighboring counties, will step down from that post after making racially insensitive comments about the court's top administrative official, a Black woman, according to a report.

U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney, who began a four-year term as chief district judge of the nation's largest federal court jurisdiction on June 1, announced he would leave the top post but remain a judge, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Carney made the announcement in an email on Friday to court staff and fellow judges, and offered a public apology to Kiry K. Gray, who has served as a federal court employee for 35 years. In 2015, she became the first Black woman appointed to be the Central District's executive and clerk of court, a job that requires working closely with the chief judge to oversee court operations.

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Federal Chief Judge Steps Down After Racially Insensitive Remarks (Original Post) jimfields33 Jun 2020 OP

He'll still be a judge. Laelth Jun 2020 #1

He needs the money and Bennies. Wellstone ruled Jun 2020 #3

'Street Smart' is racist now? superpatriotman Jun 2020 #2

I think it was what came after that comment... stillcool Jun 2020 #6

Linked article much info---'street smart' controversy. Comments to woman bobbieinok Jun 2020 #4

Not endorsing him, he was nominated to a seat on the US District Court by GWB, but Fla Dem Jun 2020 #5

I don't think it's about the term 'street smart' stillcool Jun 2020 #7

This message was self-deleted by its author stillcool Jun 2020 #8

Laelth

(32,017 posts)

1. He'll still be a judge.

Reply to jimfields33 (Original post)

Mon Jun 29, 2020, 01:03 PM

Jun 2020

He should resign, completely.

-Laelth

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

3. He needs the money and Bennies.

Reply to Laelth (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 29, 2020, 01:29 PM

Jun 2020

superpatriotman

(6,249 posts)

2. 'Street Smart' is racist now?

Reply to jimfields33 (Original post)

Mon Jun 29, 2020, 01:07 PM

Jun 2020

I give up.

stillcool

(32,626 posts)

6. I think it was what came after that comment...

Reply to superpatriotman (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 29, 2020, 01:52 PM

Jun 2020

and that statement/quote, made to Ms, Gray is not known..

“In a moment of anger and frustration, I said to Ms. Gray that the people criticizing me were equating my well-intended use of the term ‘street-smart’ with the reprehensible conduct of a police officer putting his knee on a person’s neck,” Carney said.
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Carney did not include the exact quote, but he apologized: “My statement was wrong. It was directed at my critics, not Ms. Gray, and I said it with no ill will or disrespect towards people of color. My statement was an insensitive and graphic overreaction to the criticism that was leveled against me. I never should have made the comparison.”

bobbieinok

(12,858 posts)

4. Linked article much info---'street smart' controversy. Comments to woman

Reply to jimfields33 (Original post)

Mon Jun 29, 2020, 01:40 PM

Jun 2020

He's quoted as saying there'll be several more judges appointed before election!!

Fla Dem

(23,696 posts)

5. Not endorsing him, he was nominated to a seat on the US District Court by GWB, but

Reply to jimfields33 (Original post)

Mon Jun 29, 2020, 01:41 PM

Jun 2020

looking him up he did make a decision that was pretty opposite of RW thinking.

On July 16, 2014, Carney declared the California death penalty to be unconstitutional, saying it is so arbitrary and plagued with delays that it violates the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. In his 29-page order he vacated the death sentence of Ernest Dewayne Jones, who was sentenced to death in 1995 for rape and murder. The order was appealed by then California Attorney General Kamala Harris.[6] The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on August 31, 2015, and in a unanimous decision overturned the decision on November 12, 2015.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormac_J._Carney

The term "street smarts" can be considered a positive comment. If I was to say someone had street smarts, it would mean they knew their way around a situation and knew what the were doing. Something they didn't learn in school, but from experience.

stillcool

(32,626 posts)

7. I don't think it's about the term 'street smart'

Reply to Fla Dem (Reply #5)

Mon Jun 29, 2020, 01:57 PM

Jun 2020

what he said that caused him to resign is not known, as far as I can tell, but it was in response to the criticism he got...

“In a moment of anger and frustration, I said to Ms. Gray that the people criticizing me were equating my well-intended use of the term ‘street-smart’ with the reprehensible conduct of a police officer putting his knee on a person’s neck,” Carney said.

Carney did not include the exact quote, but he apologized: “My statement was wrong. It was directed at my critics, not Ms. Gray, and I said it with no ill will or disrespect towards people of color. My statement was an insensitive and graphic overreaction to the criticism that was leveled against me. I never should have made the comparison.”

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