A Zambia citizen who is neither a U.S. citizen nor a permanent resident can compete in a poetry recitation contest sponsored by a U.S. federal agency this week, thanks to a ruling by a federal judge.
Judge John Woodcock issued a ruling in U.S. District Court in Portland, Maine ordering the National Endowment for the Arts to allow Allan Monga, 19, a junior at a public high school in Portland, to compete, according to the Bangor Daily News.
A judge who admitted to having a sexual affair with a social worker who worked in a special drug court overseen by the judge is trying to keep his job, but the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court may decide differently.
The judge's affair included acts that took place in the courthouse.
