The Division of Justice has requested that an Atlanta decide reprimanded for having noisy intercourse in her chambers with a prime cop recuse herself from a important authorized combat over entry to Georgia’s election information.
Federal prosecutors submitted a Movement to Disqualify and a supporting memorandum concerning Decide Eleanor Ross, 58, within the US District Court docket for the Northern District of Georgia on Friday.
Within the submitting, DOJ attorneys stated Decide Ross — who final week was reprimanded over her alleged hookups with Atlanta Police Division deputy chief Kelley Collier on the courthouse — ought to step except for the division’s combat with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger over entry to state voting information.
The federal government movement stems from an amended last report adopted by the Judicial Council of the eleventh Circuit on Dec. 10, 2025.
The decide additionally attended an occasion hosted by Fulton County District Legal professional Fani Willis’ marketing campaign, the investigation report stated.
The Obama-appointed decide acknowledged attending the personal mixer with former colleagues within the state district lawyer’s workplace, as half of a bigger partisan occasion sponsored by the marketing campaign.
The DOJ argued that Ross’ attendance on the occasion raised questions on her skill to stay neutral.
“The Topic Decide’s attendance on the political occasion – the place somebody photographed the decide – had the potential to erode public confidence within the impartial and non-partisan nature of the judiciary,” reads the memorandum, which was seen by The Put up.
“A decide who attended a celebration celebrating the election of a Democrat finest identified for prosecuting a Republican President for alleged election interference can not then preside over a case regarding that President’s efforts to make sure election integrity,” DOJ attorneys wrote within the submitting.
Earlier than she was a decide, Ross labored within the Fulton County district lawyer’s workplace, overlapping with future DA Willis.
Ross scheduled a listening to within the case towards Raffensberger for Wednesday, however due to the recusal request, the DOJ has requested for the listening to to be delayed.
Willis indicted Trump on racketeering expenses in 2023, however the case was dropped in 2025 when it was found she had a romantic relationship with the person she selected to guide the case.
In January 2026, the FBI raided Fulton County, seizing ballots and different election supplies on account of claims by President Trump of election rigging within the 2020 presidential election.
Decide Ross ordered Georgia to increase its deadline for accepting mail-in ballots in September 2020 forward of the election.
Final week, Ross, who’s married to Georgia state courtroom Decide Brian Ross, was handed a “personal reprimand” for having intercourse with Collier, 55, in her chambers.
The Barack Obama appointee demonstrated “a gross lack of judgment” by way of her two-year affair between 2023 and 2025, throughout which she allegedly had intercourse in “chambers and through enterprise hours,” in response to a report.
Her affair created a “chambers office that was extraordinarily uncomfortable and troubling for clerks,” the report states.
Decide Ross didn’t reply instantly to requests for remark.
With Put up wires.
