More embarrassment for scantily-clad Democrat judge Christina Peterson, who was arrested for ‘hitting cop’ outside Atlanta nightclub

The bad news just keeps coming for a Georgia judge who was recently arrested for allegedly punching a cop outside an Atlanta nightclub.

Douglaston County Judge Christina Peterson, 38, was removed from office Tuesday following an investigation into separate ethics allegations.

The Georgia Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that 12 of 30 cases filed against Peterson, a two-term Democrat, resulted in disciplinary action. The court ruled that she should be dismissed from her position with immediate effect.

She is also now ineligible to be elected or appointed to any future judicial position in the entire state for seven years, Fox News reports.

The decision follows the Judicial Qualifications Commission’s ruling in April, which found her guilty of “systemic incompetence” and recommended her removal.

In one of the cases cited by the Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday, Peterson decided to jail a naturalized U.S. citizen who simply wanted to change her marriage certificate with her real father’s name.

PJ Skelton, a Thai immigrant who married in Douglas County in 2016, explained to the hearing last year that she has no memories of her father — and instead listed her uncle on her marriage certificate because he was the one who raised her.

But when she tried to resolve the issue, Peterson told her to come to court.

The judge then ruled that Skelton attempted to defraud the court and sentenced her to a maximum of 20 days in jail – which she said could be reduced to two hours if she paid a $500 fine.

Skelton eventually paid the fine and spent 48 hours behind bars.

She told the panel she did not expect the judge to act this way, noting that Peterson never advised her to bring an attorney.

The panel ultimately concluded that Skelton “acted in good faith and attempted to correct” what appeared to be “an innocent error arising from ignorance rather than malicious intent,” according to court documents obtained by Fox.

It was also found that Peterson gave “untruthful” testimony to the panel when she tried to defend her statement, which they said “underscored her conscious wrongdoing.”

The commission also accused Peterson of ignoring courthouse safety protocols, particularly during a wedding held after hours at her courthouse without security screening.

The charges further include posting inappropriate messages on social media promoting her part-time acting career and disobeying a sheriff’s order.

Furthermore, unlike her predecessor, Peterson chose to keep all birth and death certificate fees in addition to her salary, a practice that, while legal, is considered unethical.

In 2022, Peterson — at the time a veterinarian for six years — deducted $140,485 in fees, bringing her annual compensation to $265,487, records show.

The year before, she had earned $139,447 in fees, bringing her total income to $265,862.

For comparison, in 2022, the Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court earned $216,593.

Peterson was already facing criticism for these decisions when she was arrested Thursday for allegedly punching a police officer who was providing security at the Red Martini Restaurant.

Police said she had been drinking the night before the altercation, and police body camera footage shows the judge wearing a low-cut dress engaged in a physical fight that reportedly occurred just seconds before the strike.

It shows Peterson attacking the officer and a security guard to help a woman she said had been “attacked.”

The clip continues with a reluctant Peterson talking to officers in a police car, telling them to “Google” her while they are handcuffed and visibly upset.

“Take me where you want to take me,” she says in the video, which came just hours after a news conference was held to discuss the Douglas County probation judge’s arrest.

‘You don’t need any identification. You picked up dead bodies when you didn’t know what bodies they were, but you picked them up.

“Take me where you need to take me.”

But Peterson has since said The clip was taken out of context and said the altercation occurred after she was wrongfully arrested while trying to be a Good Samaritan.

She said she had just intervened to help a woman who was being “viciously attacked” at the Peachtree Road restaurant and lounge by an unnamed man who was not seen in the footage.

“She was the only one who helped me,” Alexandria Love, the woman at the center of the incident, said at Friday’s news conference, where Peterson appeared unfazed by her arrest just over a day earlier.

Love, meanwhile, was cast, while Peterson’s attorney Marvin Arrington Jr. promised to defend his client to the bitter end.

“This is living proof that ‘no good deed goes unpunished’,” the judge’s legal representative said.

“The idea that a Good Samaritan who helped a woman who was being viciously attacked could be arrested and the man who viciously attacked the woman was not arrested speaks to other issues.”

A few hours later, the footage was made public, as both Love and another witness insisted they did not know Peterson beforehand.

Later footage also showed the judge struggling away from an officer as he was escorted into a law enforcement building, repeating the words, “Don’t touch me!”

Shortly before, Peterson was handcuffed face down on the ground, bodycam footage shows — with police asking for her name and her refusing to give it.

A preliminary police report, obtained by FOX 5, shows that the judge “appeared to be under the influence” when she struck the officer. That is difficult to see in the images.

In it, the male officer who was allegedly punched is seen standing over Peterson and Love, with the former pushing the officer in the chest and at one point swiping at his hands.

The clip then becomes increasingly shaky as a physical conflict ensues, after which the film officer is seen putting bracelets on the lawyer.

But Peterson — a public official charged with impartially overseeing local laws — did not go quietly, struggling and squirming throughout the ordeal.

It ends with her on the ground, before being taken to the police car and finally to the station.

In the car she seems less and less remorseful and crosses her legs defiantly.

Peterson now faces charges of simple battery on a police officer and a misdemeanor count of willful obstruction of law enforcement by use of threats of violence, jail records show, as the investigation into the alleged altercation continues.