The Washington Supreme Court knocked it down to five days. The commission instead recommended that she be suspended for 90 days without pay. The disciplinary counsel who originally brought the case urged the commission to remove Judge Eiler from the bench permanently. Unfortunately, the punishment ultimately handed down was much less than initially recommended. The Washington Supreme Court did the right thing, ruling this month that Judge Eiler had violated the state's judicial canons. By that logic, bank robbers would have a First Amendment right to hand over notes saying "This is a stickup." Judges, after all, do not have a First Amendment right to abuse people just because they use words to do it. She also made the bizarre claim that the court was trying to infringe on her freedom of speech. Judge Eiler defended herself by saying she was just a "tough, no-nonsense judge" and that the case against her was overblown. In 2008, the commission accused her of the same kind of abuse. She completed the therapy, but soon she went back to her old ways. She was required to participate in behavioral therapy and to refrain from similar conduct in the future. It pointed to multiple instances showing that she had engaged in "a pattern or practice of rude, impatient and undignified treatment" of the people who appeared before her. The State Commission on Judicial Conduct brought her up on disciplinary charges for her insulting and demeaning judicial style. Judge Eiler first ran into trouble in 2004. It should have pushed back against our rising smackdown culture by removing this judge running amok from her job. It is a good and important ruling, but the court did not go far enough. (See "Top 10 Ye Olde British Criminal Trials.") Instead of high ratings and rich syndication fees, this Judge Judy's aggressive demeanor earned her a five-day suspension without pay courtesy of the Washington State Supreme Court. It was Judge Judith Raub Eiler, her real-life doppelgänger, who sits at a county court in Seattle. This bullying Judge Judy was not Judge Judith Sheindlin, the tough-talking former New York City Family Court judge who has the top-rated judge show on syndicated television. "She frequently interrupted answers with insults," the woman recalled. Over the years, Judge Judy has adjudicated a seemingly inexhaustible supply of real-life small claim disputes, ruling that those in the wrong must pay the other party anywhere up to $US5000 in damages.When a defendant showed up on a traffic charge, Judge Judy delivered a zinger: "If you drive like an idiot 'cause you're late for work, you're gonna have to pay for it." Then she piled on: "You can see your picture on the headlines of the Seattle Times, stupid young man who shouldn't be driving."Īnother defendant recalled that the tart-tongue jurist humiliated and bullied her until she broke down in tears. RELATED: Judge Judy lands jaw-dropping new deal RELATED: Judge Judy stuns fans with new hairdo
“Now they have 25 years of my re-runs,” she added.īut there’s a surprising fact about the show, which airs on Foxtel’s Arena channel, that even some of its most loyal fans may not realise.
“CBS sort of felt, I think, they wanted to optimally utilise the repeats of my program,” she said. Judge Judith Sheindlin herself appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres show this week, where she told DeGeneres that the 2020-21 season of Judge Judy – the show’s 25th – will be its last.
One of television’s most dependable institutions, Judge Judy, is finally coming to an end after 25 seasons.
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