An Orange County judge on Tuesday banned U.S. Rep. Katie Porter’s ex-girlfriend from having any contact with her children for the next five years and ordered her to commit domestic violence by sending hundreds of threatening and harassing messages to the congresswoman. He said he did.

Superior Court Judge Elia Naqvi said his restraining order prohibits 55-year-old Julian Willis from having contact with Porter or his family. The order also prohibits Willis from speaking with Porter and nine current and former colleagues, including employees in Congressional offices.

Porter, an Irvine Democrat who plans to leave Congress next month, obtained a temporary restraining order against Willis last month.

In court filings, she said Willis, her ex-boyfriend of 10 years, subjected her and her loved ones to “relentless abuse and harassment” after asking her to leave their Irvine home in August. He said that he started sending out a large number of messages saying the same thing.

Porter said Willis sent more than 1,000 text messages and emails, including 82 in 124 hours in September and on Nov. 12 before blocking his phone number. He reportedly texted her 55 times. Porter said the messages came so frequently that she feared for her safety and mental health.

Porter said Willis had been hospitalized twice for psychiatric incarceration since late 2022 and had a history of abusing prescription painkillers and other drugs.

On Tuesday, Porter waited nearly three hours in an Orange courtroom for a judge to prepare notes on more than a dozen domestic violence cases.

There was no one in the courtroom except for two reporters when Porter’s case was called. Porter sat next to his lawyer with his hands folded in his lap and spoke only when the judge asked him direct questions.

Ms Porter said she and Willis had been together for 10 years and he had never physically abused her.

Porter also said Willis repeatedly violated a November restraining order by continuing to send emails to him, co-workers and staff.

“Please inform the court that I have violated the terms of a partially granted out-of-state restraining order,” Porter’s attorney, Gerald Singleton, read out a portion of the email he received from Willis. said.

Singleton said it was of “great concern” that Willis told police in New Jersey, where Porter now lives, that the restraining order did not apply to her.

In California, restraining orders can last up to five years. Ms Naqvi said the five-year prison order was justified because the couple had been together for 10 years and it was “very concerning” that Willis had repeatedly breached court orders.

Porter declined to comment after the hearing.

Porter plans to resign from the House in January after losing the California Senate primary in March. He is being discussed as a front-runner in California’s 2026 gubernatorial race after Gov. Gavin Newsom was forced to step down due to term limits, but he has not announced whether he will run.

Mr. Willis was not in court Tuesday and has not filed a formal response to Mr. Porter’s allegations. He did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday.

He previously told the Times that he did not have a lawyer, adding: “When the time is right, the universe will get me the right lawyer.”

Porter’s court filing included 22 pages of emails, text messages and other communications between Porter, family members and co-workers who received messages from Willis.

The filing also included messages between the brothers who discussed helping Porter and Willis while they were in psychiatric custody and during their stay in a sobriety facility.

In an email Willis sent to Singleton in late November, Willis said he visited Porter’s eldest son, who was attending college out of state, and “put a wrecking ball down on Katie and destroyed her and her life for a million minutes.” “I will crush you in one piece,” he said.

He told Porter’s lawyer: “That’s what I’m doing–and now you’re next on my list, you piece of trash.”

In another email included in the filing, Willis told Singleton she planned to file a complaint with Child Protective Services about Porter, who has a 12-year-old daughter and a 16-year-old son.

Willis was previously in the news in 2021. arrested after a fight broke out during a Porter Town Hall meeting in an Irvine park.