US Court Staff Filed 17 Complaints Against Judges, Watchdog Says

Judiciary employees filed 17 complaints against federal judges from fiscal 2020 through 2022, a federal watchdog found in a report examining the judicial branch’s efforts to address workplace misconduct.

Allegations raised in those employee-raised complaints included “abusive conduct by a judge, religious discrimination, and discrimination and harassment based on the employee’s pregnancy,” the Government Accountability Office found in a report released Tuesday.

In one instance, a judge was “privately reprimanded,” and in another, the judge was found to have created a hostile work environment, the report said. The report doesn’t specify either case. Those complaints were initiated under the Judicial ...