Lafayette Parish Council Chairman A.B. Rubin wants controversial Lafayette Public Library Board member Robert Judge removed.

“I think it’s far time for us to get rid of him off the board,” Rubin said at a Parish Council meeting Tuesday. “We are responsible for putting him on there and I think it’s our responsibility to our library and consitutents to take him off.”

The matter was not on the council’s agenda. Rubin brought it up at the beginning of the meeting as part of an agenda item for council member announcements, so there could be no vote Tuesday.

Rubin tied his comments to activity at Monday’s library board meeting when, at the urging of Judge, the library board voted not to retire to executive session to consider settling a lawsuit.

The settlement would have dropped Lafayette Consolidated Government and everyone except Judge from a federal First Amendment lawsuit filed by two library constituents who formed Lafayette Citizens Against Censorship after encountering attempts to censor books and silence some speakers at library board meetings.

One of the plaintiffs said Monday more than $100,000 in legal fees against LCG would be waived with the settlement.

Going against its legal adviser, the library board voted against considering the settlement in executive session.

Judge’s term on the library board expires Sept. 30, but the Parish Council could appoint him to another term.

In February 2021, Judge was nominated to the library board by then-Parish Councilman Josh Carlson, now a state legislator, and current Councilmen John Guilbeau and Bryan Tabor.

Rubin and some residents called for Judge to resign from the library board in Aug. 2023, to no avail.

Judge did not immediately return a call for comment on this story Tuesday.