Judge Kaye Christian doesn’t like it when people don’t play by her rules.
Two years ago, the D.C. Superior Court judge had the city’s child welfare chief, Ernestine Jones, arrested and brought before her in handcuffs after Jones twice failed to show up for a court hearing. Between 1994 and 1997, Christian routinely closed D.C. school buildings and berated officials for fire code violations. And the judge does not hesitate to throw a litigant in jail when her orders are ignored.
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