Clark County District Court Judge Erika Ballou is facing allegations of ethical misconduct following a series of controversial social media posts.
The Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline has filed charges against her, highlighting one particular incident where she posed with public defenders in a hot tub and made sexually inappropriate comments.
As per the official statement of charges, Judge Ballou supposedly shared a photo on her Facebook page in April 2022, showing herself alongside public defenders Shana Brouwers and Robson Hauser while immersed in a hot tub.
The accompanying caption read: “Robson is surrounded by great t*ts.”
Ballou is accused of violating rules requiring a judge to “promote public confidence in the independence, integrity, and impartiality of the judiciary and shall avoid impropriety and the appearance of impropriety,” according to the Daily Mail.
“According to court documents, Ballou shared a post that showed her in a hot tub with two members of the public defender’s office, including an inappropriate comment referring to ‘t*ts,'” KSNV reported.
Attorney Francis Flaherty filed a complaint against Ballou, which serves as the initial step for potential disciplinary action. The formal charges also mention a Facebook post made in April 2022.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported, “The complaint said Ballou’s posts violated several codes of conduct, including one that states judges should act in a way that promotes public trust, a rule that calls for her position take precedence over her ‘personal and extrajudicial activities,’ and a rule that prohibits conveying an impression that there’s somebody or an entity in a position of influence.”
Ballou has faced previous backlash for expressing highly contentious views.
In 2016, Ballou defied a judge’s order to remove her Black Lives Matter pin. In July 2022, the Las Vegas Police Protective Association called for Ballou’s resignation due to her comments that were seen as “anti-cop.”
Courtroom video shows Ballou telling a defendant, “You’re the one making the decisions not to walk away from cops. You’re a black man in America. You know you don’t want to be nowhere where cops are. You know you don’t want to be nowhere where cops are cause I know I don’t, and I’m a middle-aged, middle-class black woman. I don’t want to be around where the cops are because I don’t know if I’m going to walk away alive or not.”
After the controversy, Ballou claimed that she supported law enforcement by saying, “What the record shows, is that I communicate with those who appear before me in a manner that is straight-forward and understandable.”
In January 2021, Ballou assumed the role of a judge after taking the oath.
KLAS-TV reported, “Before becoming a judge, Ballou was a public defender and social justice organizer. She was a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, which supported her run for judge.”
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Sounds like a true Democrat.
Keep putting people like this in power positions and this will be the downfall of our democracy. So keep on voting for these Marxists and Sol Alinsky followers.
WE DO NOT LIVE IN A DEMOCRACY, WE LIVE IN A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC.
We used to live in a Constitutional republic. Now we are governed by criminals who defy our Constitution and the law every day.
Get rid of the judge! Fire her! She is compromised!
YEP, THIS IS THE KIND OF PEOPLE THAT DEMOCRATS PICK FOR THEIR JUDGE AND OTHER OFFICE APPOINTMENTS. PEOPLE THAT REFLECT THEIR VIEWS RATHER THAN FOLLOW THE LAW.
Or common decency
Just a DEI/DNC member acting like a moron. Respect in the DEI/DNC world does not exist.
The crazy judge who s only claim to fame is her over sucked tits in the hot tub… is a complete Bust and school be removed from office.
I would immediately Recuse her if she heard any of my cases. Its a shame the office of public defender is proliferated by losers that cant make it in the court room being a counsel to those whom need help.
Get rid of her. !
please Jesus. save us from these communist lunatics
Unfortunately she isn’t the only rotten judge
She will not be disciplined again.
It’s been 21 months since she posted her filth online on FB and she is just now being stripped of her robes as a judge. If she had been anything but a Socialist Demonacrat disciple of Lucifer she would have been in jail over 14 months already
Cant more judges & lawyers do this??
Ballou, a typical Democrat slut, just like the Democrat sluts that call murdering of unborn infants ” women’s health care”. Maybe if these whores would keep their legs closed when anything male walks by, they wouldn’t need abortions.
Well, she’s right about one thing: you never know if you’re going to walk away from a cop ALIVE.
I wouldn’t say it’s in good taste, but so what? Makes it hard for extortionists, anyway. There are nudes in the Sistine Chapel (although I’m sure there are people with nothing better to do than condemn them). Not important news.
You fucking simp, you think being judged by cunts like that is ok?
And, of course, no pics of it. If it was a conservative person, the picture would be posted on billboards across the country!
They are all trash &, as such, should be thrown away or burned.
Prostituting America’s justice system.
“violating rules requiring a judge to “promote public confidence in the independence, integrity, and impartiality of the judiciary and shall avoid impropriety and the appearance of impropriety,”” Ha, anyone that has any confidence in the judiciary has to be a moron.
So why did she even want to become a judge. She obviously lied when she was taking her oath. She needs to be tossed out, not for her photo’, as much but for her statements.
There is no way she could ever be fair.
no photographic proof, just hearsay charges, won’t hold up in any court.
No photographic proof? What do you think posting a photo on social media is? Typical comment by a liberal sheep!
Past your bedtime simp
Not someone to be respected for their judgement.
AMEN!!!!!
Filthy skank is loaded with STD’s , gonorrhea, syphilis, Aids, mange, crabs
Why on earth would the dumb, stupid, idiot broad do this, aww yes, she needs to be a judge..smh.
Why on earth would the dumb, stupid, idiot broad do this, aww yes, she needs to be a judge..smh. No, I haven’t said this twice!!!!
Yup, one of lucifer’s DEI dimmercraps.
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Who in the he** makes inferior creatures like this a judge or puts them in any kind of position of authority?! This is forced diversity! If diversity is our greatest strength as some idiots say, why do we constantly have to lower standards and promote the incompetent and corrupt in order to achieve it?