The Missouri Supreme Court has appointed a state judge to oversee municipal court cases in Ferguson after a Justice Department report uncovered systematic racial bias and violation of constitutional rights. The Justice Department said the municipal court “primarily uses its judicial authority as the means to compel the payment of fines and fees that advance the city’s financial interest.” Ronald Brockmeyer, the municipal court judge singled out in the report for his pattern of jailing people unable to pay fines while fixing traffic tickets for himself, resigned his post. The Guardian reports Brockmeyer, who will keep his job as a prosecutor and as a judge in another town, owes $170,000 in unpaid taxes.