Baton Rouge Judge Tiffany Foxworth-Roberts’ repeated lack of honesty about her military service amounts to “stolen valor,” making it necessary that she be removed from the bench, according to a newly released recommendation from Louisiana’s Judiciary Commission.
Foxworth-Roberts has been under investigation by the commission for more than a year over allegations that she lied about the rank she attained in the military, the wars she served in and her military duties, which she touted to voters when they elected her as a district judge in 2020. The commission has also investigated whether Foxworth-Roberts reported a false burglary while she was campaigning that same year.
But the Judiciary Commission has now taken an extraordinarily rare step of telling the Louisiana Supreme Court that they should strip Foxworth-Roberts of her judgeship. The state’s high court has not removed a judge from office in 16 years.
The last judge to get the boot was Jefferson Parish District Judge Joan Benge in 2009 after she was caught on FBI wiretaps during a corruption investigation into the 24th Judicial District courthouse called “Wrinkled Robe.” Benge did not face criminal charges in the case…