Michigan judge loses docket after she’s recorded insulting gay people and Black people

By The Associated PressThis photo provided by Oakland County government shows Oakland County, Michigan, Probate Judge Kathleen Ryan. (Oakland County government via AP)PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — 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 Aug. 27 for unspecified misconduct. Now the court’s administrator has stepped forward to say he blew the whistle on her, secretly recording their phone calls.“I just want to make it right. … I want to keep my job and do it in peace,” Edward Hutton& told WXYZ-TV. “And I want the people in Oakland County that come to court to get a fair shake, to have their day in court, to have an unbiased trier of fact.”The judge didn’t talk to the TV station, but her attorneys, Gerald Gleeson and Thomas Cranmer, said: “We look forward to vindicating Judge Ryan in the appropriate forum.”Probate judges in Michigan handle wills and estates, guardianships and cases that involve the state’s mental health laws.In the phone recordings, Ryan uses a anti-gay slur against David Coulter, the county’s highest...