The Judicial Council for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that now-retired U.S. District Judge Walter Smith’s sexual harassment of a Waco courthouse employee was serious, but not enough to warrant the “extraordinary step” of impeaching a judge no longer on the bench. In so ruling they also determined that Smith will be allowed to keep his lifetime salary.
Appointed to the bench by President Ronald Reagan in 1984, Smith was reprimanded by the Fifth Circuit on Dec. 4, 2015, for making “inappropriate, unwanted physical and nonphysical sexual advances” toward a court employee in 1998.
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