A Colorado state judge resigned after it became public that she used the n-word in from of court workers, proclaimed her political positions from the bench, voiced her support for “All Live Matter” and ordered court staff to do her personal errands, CNN reports.
The Colorado Supreme Court publicly censured District Judge Natalie Chase on Friday, after which she handed in her resignation.
“[Chase] asked the [court employee] questions about why Black people can use the N-word but not white people, and whether it was different if the N-word is said with an ‘er’ or an ‘a’ at the end of the word,” the censure order said. “During the conversation, Judge Chase used the full N-word a number of times.”
The order and resignation notice said Chase recognized that her actions “undermined confidence in the impartiality of the judiciary by expressing (her) views about criminal justice, police brutality, race and racial bias, specifically while wearing (her) robe in court staff work areas and from the bench.”