36th District Court Judge Kahlilia Yvette Davis (Photo: Facebook)
A longstanding beef between 36th District Court judge Kahlilia Yvette Davis and the courthouse's chief judge, Nancy Blount, took a strange turn Friday, when Blount reportedly issued an order barring Davis from bringing weapons to work and using an entrance used by other judges. Instead, Blount said Davis would now have to go through security like members of the public in order to the downtown Detroit court house, the Detroit News reports.
It's unclear what prompted the order.
This is reportedly the second time Blount has reprimanded Davis. In 2017, she stopped letting Davis hear cases because she hadn't shown up to work the first three months of the year. That prompted Davis to sue, the News reports:
Blount's order follows an 18-page complaint Davis filed in Wayne County Circuit Court asking a higher court to take control of 36th District Court and address an alleged order by Blount that Davis said prevented her from punishing courtroom bailiffs who supposedly lied about her during hearings.
Davis, who was elected in 2016, now serves as an auxiliary judge filling in for other judges and maintaining dockets for things like business licenses business license and commercial motor vehicles, the News reports. She makes $138,000 per year.
This isn't the first no-weapons order for a 36th District Court judge in recent years. Brenda Sanders, who was deemed mentally unfit to serve by the Michigan Supreme Court in 2015, was also made to go through security screenings.
