If the results of our poll yesterday are any indication, ordinary people feel pretty strongly that administrative law Judge Roy Pearson is a few sandwiches short of a picnic, and really ought not to be a judge anymore. Finally, the Examiner brings word that Pearson’s employer agrees with that sentiment.

In a letter to the three-person commission that will decide whether Pearson gets reappointed, District of Columbia Chief Administrative Judge Tyrone T. Butler said Pearson does not deserve a 10-year term to the post, which pays more than $100,000 a year.

“My sense is that the commission will not reappoint him,” a D.C. government source said.

Butler’s letter reverses his previous recommendation in support of Pearson that he sent to the commission before the pants suit case gained worldwide notoriety.

At least one administrative judge in D.C. has come to his senses. Butler isn’t the only member of the legal community who has turned on Pearson since his multi-million dollar pants lawsuit started making headlines. The American Association for Justice, the renamed Association of Trial Lawyers of America, filed an ethics complaint against Pearson in May with the D.C. Bar. We don’t know who the Examiner’s unnamed government source is, but we certainly hope they’re right.