{"id":482773,"date":"2026-10-31T23:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T23:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/482773\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T23:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T23:58:11","slug":"texas-judge-suspended-ordered-to-ungergo-mental-evaluation-after-making-racial-remarks-against-latino-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/482773\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas judge suspended, ordered to ungergo mental evaluation after making racial remarks against Latino lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Texas federal judge was temporarily suspended from overseeing cases and ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after she made a series of racially charged remarks against a Latino lawyer<\/a>, according to court documents.<\/p>\n

The Judicial Council of the Fifth Circuit initiated its investigation Aug. 11 after civil rights lawyer Ezra Young filed a misconduct complaint<\/a> against US District Judge Ada Brown.<\/p>\n

The complaint stemmed from an April 24 hearing after Brown, who is black and of Native American descent, summoned him to appear before her several months after she barred him from litigating cases in her Dallas courtroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While questioning Young over sealed documents that she had discovered on his personal website, Brown accused him of mistreating black attorneys.<\/p>\n

\"AdaUS District Judge Ada Brown is under investigation for making racial remarks to civil rights lawyer, Ezra Young, during an April 24 hearing at a federal court in Dallas, Texas. Senate Judiciary Committee via REUTERS<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what\u2019s happening, here, quite candidly, is you are very intimidated for some reason, Mr. Young, with black excellence, in light of your white mediocrity. Yeah. Right?\u201d Brown said, according to a transcript posted online by Bloomberg Law.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou should write that down. I mean \u2026 you look like a White man, right?\u201d the judge added.<\/p>\n

Young, a Columbia law school graduate, then revealed that he was Latino and had taken his wife\u2019s last name<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, you are White-presenting; is that fair to say?\u201d Brown snapped back before the lawyer told her, \u201cI\u2019m fair-skinned, Your Honor, yes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Young, who is representing a black law professor who filed a lawsuit against Southern Methodist University, declined an interview request from The Post but said his family is from Mexico.<\/p>\n

During the hearing, Brown accused Young of addressing non-black attorneys \u201cwith honorifics\u201d and black lawyers by their first names.<\/p>\n

\"CivilCivil rights lawyer Ezra Young, of Mexican descent, filed a misconduct complaint against U.S. District Judge Ada Brown after she made racial remarks against him and questioned if he was \u201cintimidated\u201d by \u201cBlack excellence.\u201d Instagram \/ Ezra Young<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re the white savior, come to save all the stupid black lawyers in Texas who need your help, from New York,\u201d Brown also told Young during the court session.<\/p>\n

Young filed his complaint on May 14 and raised concerns about Brown\u2019s mental health condition.<\/p>\n

Brown issued a response July 28 and denied having a mental illness. She was apologetic but stressed that Young showed \u201cconcerning behavior towards black lawyers, and women that he does not exhibit to white men,\u201d according to a copy of the 76-page letter that was reviewed by Bloomberg Law.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do not believe my demeanor was inappropriate at any time, especially during the candid conversations about race,\u201d said Brown while admitting that the discussion with Young \u201cmight have been handled more delicately\u201d on her behalf.<\/p>\n

A special panel three judges appointed by Chief Circuit Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod notified Brown on Sep. 10 to meet with the committee on Sept. 21, according to a court document that was released Oct. 19.<\/p>\n

But Brown, who twice informed the court she would resign before rescinding, never showed up and was ordered that day to undergo an \u201cindependent psychiatric evaluation within 30 days.\u201d She was given seven days to confirm if she would comply and failed to respond.<\/p>\n

\u201cBased on the Committee\u2019s investigation and observations of Judge Brown\u2019s behavior, the Committee determined that there is reasonable basis to conclude that Judge Brown suffers from a mental condition that currently interferes with her ability to perform the responsibilities of the office,\u201d Walker Elrod wrote in a court document dated Oct. 1. <\/p>\n

The committee, which is still investigating Brown, found that she recused herself from more than 40 cases since June 1. It revealed that Brown had \u201cabandoned her post as a federal judge\u201d and failed to respond to questions regarding her return, according to the court.<\/p>\n

Brown failed to appear before the committee for an interview on Friday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Texas federal judge was temporarily suspended from overseeing cases and ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[162572,2441,3304,42903,27,29,28,734],"class_list":["post-482773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-circuit-court-of-appeals","tag-court","tag-judges","tag-lawyers","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}