A Jersey City. N.J., municipal judge whose affair with a bailiff cost him his seat is asking a federal court to order state judicial officials to turn over records he hopes will bolster his claim that he was treated more harshly due to his race.

Wilson Campbell wrote on Oct. 12 to U.S. Magistrate Judge Cathy Waldor, asking her to compel the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct to produce records he requested in a Sept. 12 subpoena, but did not get, in his discrimination suit, Campbell v. Supreme Court of New Jersey, 11-cv-555.