Lammey, Casada, Michael Harris Face Potential Threats to Their Jobs

It was a 12-0 vote on the Shelby County Commission on Monday to support the pending possible censure by the Tennessee Board of Judicial Conduct of Criminal Court Judge Jim Lammey for social media posts that consistently contained links to racist, anti-immigrant, and anti-Semitic themes.

The potential 13th vote, which would have made things unanimous, was that of Democratic Commissioner Reginald Milton, who had to miss the meeting for personal reasons but who had made his approval of a censure resolution known.

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Lammey, who was invited to appear before the commission on Monday, did not do so, pleading a "heavy trial docket" for the date, but the beleaguered jurist did submit a letter to the commissioners that Lammey suggested would "set the record straight against those who so maliciously mischaracterize me as an anti-Semite hater of all immigrants."

The accusations against Lammey stem from a series of articles by Commercial Appeal writer Daniel Connolly documenting, first, a Facebook post by Lammey linking to an article by one David Cole, identified by several sources as a Holocaust denier. That article stated, among other things, that Jews should "get the f**k over the Holocaust" and referred to Muslim immigrants as "foreign mud." Lammey's post called the story "interesting."

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