When we last checked in on Judge Thomas L. Ludington of the Eastern District of Michigan, the 72-year-old jurist was accused of driving “super drunk,” with a blood-alcohol content more than three times the legal limit. Now, thanks to a newly released police report, we have more detail about just how impaired the judge allegedly was — and it’s not pretty.
According to the report cited by Bloomberg Law, after crashing his vehicle back in October, Ludington struggled through field sobriety tests in ways that would be concerning in a 22-year-old spring breaker, let alone a life-tenured federal judge. Asked to recite the alphabet from C to Q, Ludington reportedly offered: “A, B, C, D, F, U.”
He also allegedly told the responding trooper — twice — that he was a federal judge, which is certainly one way to try to establish credibility while “he appeared to have urinated himself.” Ludington said he hadn’t been drinking, and claimed he didn’t remember crashing. Police said they smelled alcohol. A post-crash blood draw later clocked him at 0.27. Bloomberg has additional details:
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