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2024年3月1日，富尔顿县地方检察官法妮·威利斯在佐治亚州亚特兰大出席佐治亚州选举干预案听证会。亚历克斯·斯利茨/彭博社 via REUTERS 购买授权
路透社5月29日电——美国司法部周五要求一名联邦法官回避审理其敦促佐治亚州交出非公开选民登记名单副本的诉讼，此前该法官被卷入一起司法不当案件。
就在一周前，一个联邦司法委员会维持了对一名匿名法官的私下谴责，该法官因在自己的办公室与一名高级警官发生性关系，且距离法律书记员很近。
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近期公布的施加该处罚的司法不当命令并未公开该法官姓名。但司法部援引已将该法官身份披露为亚特兰大美国地区法官埃莉诺·罗斯的新闻媒体报道，而罗斯正是这起选民名册相关案件的主审法官。
美国第十一巡回上诉法院司法委员会2月的一项命令认定，该法官存在婚外情，并与该警官发生性关系，还出席了一名匿名地方检察官的政治竞选活动。
司法部表示，这名地方检察官正是富尔顿县地方检察官法妮·威利斯，“她因起诉特朗普总统涉嫌2020年选举相关罪名失败而全国知名”。
司法部称，假设罗斯——民主党总统巴拉克·奥巴马任命的法官——正是这起司法不当案件中的涉案法官，那么她理应回避，因为她出席威利斯的竞选活动造成了偏见表象。
司法部律师写道：“一名出席了一名因起诉共和党总统涉嫌选举干预而声名大噪的民主党人的庆祝当选派对的法官，之后不能审理涉及该总统为确保选举公正性所做努力的案件。”
罗斯的法庭未立即回应置评请求。这位原定于周三就司法部的诉讼进行口头辩论的法官，此前曾通过其法庭拒绝就这起不当行为案件置评。
威利斯的办公室未回应置评请求。2023年，威利斯指控时任总统唐纳德·特朗普及其18名共同被告涉嫌发动全面刑事阴谋，以推翻佐治亚州2020年选举结果——当时特朗普在与民主党人乔·拜登的连任竞选中落败。2024年，上诉法院将这位亚特兰大民选民主党人威利斯从该案中移除，理由是她与自己聘请负责该案的特别检察官存在恋爱关系，造成了“不当表象”。
威利斯被免职后，2025年特朗普重返白宫后，接手该案的另一名检察官驳回了此案。
本案案号为美国诉拉芬斯珀格案，审理法院为佐治亚州北区美国地区法院，案号1:26-CV-485。
代表美国政府：美国司法部威廉·莫尔曼
代表拉芬斯珀格：泰森·扬克律所布莱恩·泰森
DOJ seeks recusal of judge in Georgia voter rolls case, citing misconduct scandal
2026-05-30T00:21:30.074Z / Reuters
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis attends a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, March 1, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia. Alex Slitz/Pool via REUTERS Purchase Licensing Rights
May 29 (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday asked a federal judge to step aside from hearing its bid to force the state of Georgia to turn over a copy of its non-public voter registration list after she was linked to a judicial misconduct case.
The Justice Department made the request a week after a federal judicial panel upheld a private reprimand of an unnamed judge for having sex with a high-ranking police officer in her chambers within earshot of law clerks.
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Recently released judicial misconduct orders imposing the sanction did not publicly disclose the name of the judge. But the Justice Department cited news outlets that had identified the jurist as U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross in Atlanta, who is hearing the voter rolls-related case.
A February order by the 11th Circuit Judicial Council found that the judge engaged in an extramarital affair and had sex with the officer and also attended a political campaign event for an unnamed district attorney.
The Justice Department said that district attorney was Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, “who rose to nationwide fame for her failed prosecution of President Trump for alleged crimes related to the 2020 election.”
The department said that assuming Ross, an appointee of Democratic President Barack Obama, is the judge at issue in the judicial misconduct case, her recusal was warranted due to the appearance of bias her appearance at the Willis event created.
“A judge who attended a party celebrating the election of a Democrat best known for prosecuting a Republican President for alleged election interference cannot then preside over a case concerning that President’s efforts to ensure election integrity,” Justice Department lawyers wrote.
Ross’s court did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The judge, who had been set to hear arguments in the department’s lawsuit Wednesday, has previously through her court declined to comment on the misconduct case.
Willis, whose office has not responded to requests for comment on the misconduct case, had in 2023 charged now-President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants over what she alleged was a sweeping criminal conspiracy to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results after being defeated in his re-election bid to Democrat Joe Biden.
An appeals court removed Willis, an elected Democrat in Atlanta, from the case in 2024. The court said she had created an “appearance of impropriety” by having a romantic relationship with the special prosecutor she had hired to lead the case.
Following her removal, the case was dismissed in 2025 after Trump returned to the White House by another prosecutor who took it over.
The case is United States v. Raffensperger, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, No. 1:26-CV-485.
For the United States: William Mohrman of the U.S. Department of Justice
For Raffensperger: Bryan Tyson of Tyson Younker
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