In a social media post, the Attorney General allegedly made “inappropriate public comments about President Trump and his administration.”
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The U.S. Department of Justice has stepped up judicial scrutiny by filing a formal misconduct complaint against one of President Donald Trump’s most unpopular federal judges.
Attorney General Pam Bondy said on July 28 that 62-year-old Supreme Court Judge James Boasberg of the District of Columbia’s U.S. District Court, had directed the agency to file his complaints after making “inappropriate public comments about President Trump and his administration” in March.
“These comments undermines judicial integrity and we do not support it,” Bondi writes to X.
Boasberg was the first judge to block the deportation of hundreds of Venezuelan gang members conducted under the alien enemy laws. When the administration ignored his order to reclaim his flight, Boasberg began a contemptful process and was later suspended by the Court of Appeal. The Supreme Court ultimately exempted him from a temporary ban on deportation.
President Donald Trump said on social media in March that Boasberg was a “radical left-handed man” and called for his bounce each. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts stepped in and issued a rare official statement saying, “For over two centuries, it has been established that ammo each is not an appropriate response to disagreements over judicial decisions.”
In Bondy’s complaints, her chief of staff, Chad Mizzel, accused Boasberg of inappropriately trying to influencing Roberts and other judges during the March 11 meeting.
Misell said Boasberg expressed concern about the Trump administration, which ignored federal court rulings, and those remarks violated the rules that judges must follow for not discussing pending cases in public.
Then President George W. Bush first appointed Boasburg in 2002, serving in Washington’s major courts, and DC Boasburg advanced to the federal bench in 2011 thanks to a lifetime appointment from then-President Barack Obama.
Boasberg’s assistant declined to comment.
Contribution: Reuters
