The Gwinnett County Magistrate Judge suspended for Facebook comments he made earlier this week resigned from the bench yesterday Wednesday, according to the Georgia News Network.
Judge Jim Hinkle had been suspended from the post on Tuesday from his post as a Gwinnett County Magistrate Court.
Violence last weekend during a Virginia rally by white supremacists opposing the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The rally also stoked calls to topple Confederate statues and monuments.
A Marine Corps veteran and former mayor of the city of Grayson, Hinkle wrote about the controversy on his Facebook page Saturday.
``It looks like all of the snowflakes have no concept of history,'' Hinkle wrote. ``It is what it is. Get over it and move on.''
The judge followed up with a post Tuesday that criticized ``the nut cases tearing down monuments.''
Hinkle told the Atlanta Journal Constitution he didn't ``see anything controversial'' about his posts.
``But you know, with the way things are going in the world today, I guess everything's controversial,'' Hinkle said.
Hinkle's Facebook page was no longer publicly accessible late Tuesday morning, the newspaper reported.
Associated Press contributed to this story.
