Three weeks after a state investigative panel accused him of making racist and sexist remarks, a Jacksonville circuit judge is flatly denying the accusations of inappropriate conduct.

An attorney for Circuit Judge Mark Hulsey filed a six-page response Monday in the Florida Supreme Court rejecting allegations that Hulsey said blacks should “get back on a ship and go back to Africa” and that he referred to women staff attorneys as being “like cheerleaders who talk during the national anthem.”

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