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NBC News reports that rubbing Donald Trump the wrong way means retaliation:
The Justice Department filed a complaint Monday alleging misconduct by a federal judge overseeing several cases involving the Trump administration, including a challenge to the legality of deportation flights to El Salvador in March.
The complaint against James Boasberg, the chief U.S. district judge in Washington, D.C., which was filed by Attorney General Pam Bondi’s chief of staff, Chad Mizelle, alleges that Boasberg made improper comments during a judicial conference in March.
“While there,” Mizelle wrote, “Judge Boasberg attempted to improperly influence Chief Justice Roberts and roughly two dozen other federal judges by straying from the traditional topics to express his belief that the Trump Administration would ‘disregard rulings of federal courts’ and trigger ‘a constitutional crisis.'”
NBC News hasn’t verified the remarks, which Mizelle said Boasberg made on March 11. The conference wasn’t open to the public.
Meaning an anonymous informer ran to the DOJ, you know, to inform.
They shoot dissidents, don’t they?
Improper public comments about Joseph Stalin got one shot or sent to a prison camp in Siberia. Good news! The arsenal of freedom is not quite there yet.
“These comments have undermined the integrity of the judiciary,” tweeted AG Pam Bondi, “and we will not stand for that.”
There is a flood of improper behaviors from the Trump administration, including graft, violating people’s constitutional rights, masked gunmen violently kidnapping people, throwing immigrants into a Florida concentration camp without due process, and summarily deporting others to obscure third countries. But disrespecting Dear Leader demands swift, retributive action.
The complaint is here. It alleges:
… Judge Boasberg’s actions have harmed the integrity and public confidence in the integrity of the judiciary. His comments on March 11 appear to have been improperly implemented from the bench. Having assumed President Trump would defy court orders, Judge Boasberg issued a TRO and threatened sanctions—all on a false premise. Such conduct violates litigants’ trust in an impartial judiciary and falls below the standards that safeguard the integrity of the judiciary and public confidence in that integrity.
The Trump Department of Justice run by the party that’s spent decades undermining public confidence in elections and tolerates institutionalized grift is lecturing you on judicial integrity. Let that sink in.
Mizelle asked for a second time that Boasberg be removed from the Alien Enemies Act case. And more:
Upon substantiation, impose appropriate disciplinary action, including a public reprimand and referral to the Judicial Conference for consideration of impeachment-related recommendations, if the committee finds willful misconduct.
Calling him a “troublemaker and agitator,” Trump called for Boasberg’s impeachment in March after he ordered a halt to Trump’s deportation of Venezuelans under an obscure war powers provision.
If Trump called for Boasberg to be shot, there was no one in the room, you know, to inform.
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