‘I’m a new racist’: Michigan judge suspended after insulting gay, Black people on recordings

Court worker secretly recorded calls in which Kathleen Ryan made homophobic slur and called Black people lazy

A suburban Detroit judge is no longer handling cases after a court official turned over recordings of her making anti-gay insults and referring to Black people as lazy.

Oakland county probate judge Kathleen Ryan was removed from her docket on 27 August for unspecified misconduct. Now the court's administrator has stepped forward to say he blew the whistle on her, secretly recording their phone calls.