US Judge’s ‘Reprehensible Conduct’ Cited in Letter to House (1)

Findings that former US District Judge Joshua Kindred behaved inappropriately with his law clerks and then lied about it pushed the judiciary to recommend the House consider impeaching him, a top courts’ official said in a letter to lawmakers.

Robert Conrad, director of the US courts’ administrative arm, said in the letter that the judiciary’s policymaking body determined that impeachment of Kindred, a Donald Trump appointee who’s resigned from the District of Alaska, “may be warranted.”

The letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), dated Sept. 12 and made public on Friday cited three grounds for potential impeachment. It’s unclear ...