Federal Judge Resigns Amid Sex Harassment Controversy (1)

U.S. District Judge Carlos Murguia resigned amid renewed attention to sex harassment allegations.

Murguia, who has sat in the District of Kansas since 1999, notified the White House of his resignation after a U.S. House committee earlier this month questioned the adequacy of the judiciary’s handling of allegations against him.

“In recent months, it has become clear that I can no longer effectively serve the Court in this capacity,” Murguia said in his resignation letter.

Murguia was reprimanded in September by the Judicial Council of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit after it found he made sexually ...