The problem with exchanging merit for identity politics is that people like Jefferson County, Alabama judge Nakita Blocton end up with power over the rest of us. Fortunately, she has been pulled from the bench.

Blocton’s unprofessional behavior has included calling colleagues names like “Uncle Tom,” leaking information on other judges, abusing her staff, and demanding that employees turn over their private phones so that information that might incriminate her could be deleted. In addition,

Blocton, who was a circuit judge in the Birmingham court’s domestic relations division, also used fake Facebook accounts “to communicate with litigants in a pending domestic-relations case in an effort to affect the outcome of the case,” according to the judgment.

She threatened one party in a divorce case and provided advice to another through the fake accounts, according to the complaint.

“False Prophet How Much Is Your White Judge Paying You,” she wrote to the disfavored party. “THE DEVIL IS WATCHING YOU.”

On the positive side, she is a Woman of Color and evidently left-wing. If that is qualification enough to be Vice President of the United States, surely it is enough to be a judge.

Her lawyer is fighting to keep her on the bench. How long before it becomes impossible to pry people like Nakita Blocton out of power, no matter how conspicuously awful they are?

On a tip from Wiggins.

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