A federal judge in San Francisco on Wednesday denied San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus’ request to block a voter-approved removal process by the county’s Board of Supervisors.

With a hearing set to begin Monday, the sheriff faces possible removal due to multiple accusations of corruption and misconduct. In his ruling dated Aug. 13, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria wrote that “the Court is skeptical that Corpus will ever be able to prevail on her claims that the removal process violates her federal rights.”

He added that “even if there were serious questions going to the merits of her claims, the Court would decline to take the extraordinary step of interfering with an ongoing local government process, particularly given that Corpus could (if she were somehow able to prevail)

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