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“… Boasberg’s remarks at the conference came after weeks of Trump allies inside and outside the administration suggesting judges who rule against the president should be impeached and disfavored court orders should be ignored. Judges at every level — including justices of the Supreme Court — have raised the specter of defiance by the administration and urged officials to respect court orders regardless of which court or judge issues them.
Federal judges are ordinarily barred from making out-of-court public comments about pending or impending matters. It’s unclear whether Boasberg’s remarks at the judges’ meeting qualify and whether he was speaking about any case he knew to be pending or imminent. The complaint also makes more general claims that his statements undermined “public confidence in the integrity of the judiciary.”
Mizelle also filed a complaint earlier this year against Washington-based U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes for her sharp-elbowed comments about the Justice Department’s arguments in a lawsuit seeking to block Trump’s transgender military ban.
In March, the Justice Department asked the D.C. Circuit to remove Boasberg from the deportation case and reassign it to another judge, an extraordinary step. The appeals court never acted on that request but has paused his orders related to potential contempt proceedings. After Boasberg’s March ruling, Trump called for the judge’s impeachment, labeling him a “troublemaker and agitator.”
The new complaint again asks for Boasberg’s removal from the deportation case and for him to be reprimanded publicly. It also raises the prospect of his fellow judges calling for his impeachment over the remarks.…”
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