A judicial misconduct complaint against Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg of D.C. has been dismissed because the Justice Department failed to show that he exhibited bias against the Trump administration.
The allegations against Boasberg, a former prosecutor nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama, were widely recirculated by conservative media. But when a federal appeals court requested evidence to back them up, administration officials failed to provide it, Chief Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said in a decision dismissing the misconduct complaint. The decision, dated Dec. 19, was made public Saturday.
The misconduct complaint was filed last year by Attorney General Pam Bondi’s then-chief of staff, Chad Mizelle, in an unusual move that showed how President Donald Trump and his allies have ramped up attacks against federal judges across the country for stopping, slowing or criticizing the administration’s signature initiatives to gut federal agencies and quickly deport waves of migrants, often without due process.
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So the DOJ was spying on judges is what it sounds like to me.
I am very interested to know the how and W’s of that spying. Easiest guess is offering preferential appointment to other judges willing to spy on their peers.
Honestly I don’t think it’s so much spying but a Trump appointed judge who is unabashedly loyal snitched on their own accord “because judges shouldn’t be critical of the president.”
Like a lot of things with this administration they likely have access to tools and sources that existed for quite some time but are utilizing them in clumsy ways that reveal them.