'Super drunk' judge Tom Ludington (R) belligerent, slurring, video shows
U.S. District Judge Thomas Ludington appeared to have urinated on himself after crashing his wife's Cadillac last fall and is accused of repeatedly lying to Michigan State Police troopers about whether he drank alcohol and failing field sobriety tests before registering a 0.27 blood-alcohol level ― high enough to be considered legally "super drunk," state police records show.
“A, B, C, D, E, F, U,” Ludington, 72, said when asked to recite part of the alphabet during one sobriety test, according to body camera footage from the incident obtained by The Detroit News through a public records request.
The footage shows a belligerent judge slurring words, failing to follow orders and calling one trooper a "stupid son of a b----." The video and a police report detail a rare criminal case against a federal judge in Bay City who was appointed for life to handle criminal and civil cases for a large portion of the eastern half of Michigan.
During the Oct. 3 arrest, Ludington volunteered that he was a federal judge before being handcuffed on the side of the road in Northern Michigan. The stop was prompted by a witness who called 911 after watching the Republican-nominated judge crash into two signs along a curved road in Springvale Township, east of Petoskey.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2026/02/20/super-drunk-judge-tom-ludington-belligerent-slurring-video-shows/88775103007/
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