Dhillon wants judge who allegedly attended a Fani Willis event off Georgia election integrity case

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon filed a memorandum Friday calling for a federal judge to recuse herself from an election integrity case in Georgia after allegedly attending an event that allegedly honored Democratic Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

Dhillon, in the memorandum, says the Eleventh Circuit Judicial Council, the primary governing and administrative body for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, operating out of Atlanta, found an unnamed judge "committed judicial misconduct by attending a "partisan and political event."

She also says in the memorandum the event "reportedly" honored Willis – who investigated the 2020 presidential election in Georgia that resulted in indictments against President Donald Trump and 18 alleged co-conspirators. Willis was disqualified from the case for professional and personal misconduct, which was followed by a judge in 2025 dismissing all of the charges.

Dhillon, an assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, also writes in the memorandum that the unnamed judge is being publicly identified as U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross.  

She writes that if Ross is, in fact, the unnamed judge and she indeed attended the Willis event, then she should recuse herself over the "misconduct" and the appearance of bias.

"A judge who attended a party celebrating the election of a Democrat best known for prosecuting a Republican president for alleged election interference cannot then preside over a case concerning that president's efforts to ensure election integrity," Dhillion also said.

Ross is a judge in the Atlanta-based U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. She is overseeing the Justice Department's efforts to compel Georgia to produce federal election records under the Civil Rights Act of 1960 and the National Voter Registration Act as part of its probe into state maintenance of its voter rolls ahead of the November midterms. 

She also is allegedly the unnamed federal judge who was privately reprimanded for having sex with a police officer in her chambers, Bloomberg News recently reported.

Misty Severi is a reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.