Washington [US], July 29 (ANI): U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday said the Department of Justice (DOJ) had filed a misconduct complaint against U.S. District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg for allegedly making “improper public comments” about President Donald Trump and his administration.
“Today at my direction, [DOJ] filed a misconduct complaint against U.S. District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg for making improper public comments about President Trump and his Administration,” Bondi wrote on X.
The complaint, authored by Bondi’s Chief of Staff Chad Mizelle, was submitted to Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, according to Fox News.
According to the complaint, Boasberg made the comments during a March 11 judicial conference attended by U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts and nearly two dozen other federal judges. Mizelle alleged that Boasberg strayed from customary judicial topics and remarked that the Trump administration would “disregard rulings of federal courts” and cause “a constitutional crisis.”
“While there, 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,’” Mizelle wrote, according to Fox News.
“Although his comments would be inappropriate even if they had some basis, they were even worse because Judge Boasberg had no basis—the Trump Administration has always complied with all court orders,” Mizelle added.
The judge’s remarks reportedly came just days before he presided over a case involving the Trump administration’s use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport suspected migrant gang members to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Boasberg later ruled on March 15 to halt the deportation flights, stating that the administration had violated his court order. That ruling was subsequently overturned by the Supreme Court.
Boasberg, 62, was appointed by former President Barack Obama.
Mizelle argued that the judge’s statements and judicial actions reflect a lack of impartiality and amount to a violation of the Code of Conduct for U.S. Judges.
“Within days of those statements, Judge Boasberg began acting on his preconceived belief that the Trump Administration would not follow court orders,” Mizelle said, according to the New York Post.
He concluded that the judge’s conduct “erodes public confidence in judicial neutrality” and urged Boasberg’s immediate removal from the case “to prevent further erosion” during the course of the investigation.
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