Brooklyn Surrogate’s Court Judge Harriet Thompson was on Friday suspended from handling cases and barred from accessing her chambers amid an investigation into “serious allegations of bias and discrimination,” the state court system announced. 

Court system spokesman Lucian Chalfen did not provide additional details behind the accusations against Thompson, who was elected to the bench in 2018 and who has been locked in a feud with Brooklyn’s public administrator that has spilled into public view through court filings and tabloid articles. 

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