The right wing Washington Examiner reports:
Tea Party Patriots Action, the long-influential conservative group, has filed a federal complaint against the Obama-appointed magistrate who approved the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s winter home, the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. In a long complaint filed in the Judicial Council of the 11th Circuit, Tea Party Patriots CEO Jenny Beth Martin’s argument was to the point: Florida-based Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart had it out for Trump.
“Judge Reinhart has a conflict of interest and a pattern and history of hostility to President Trump,” said the filing, which listed several examples including social media attacks and donations to anti-Trump critics, such as former President Barack Obama and 2016 GOP foe Jeb Bush. Martin’s legal complaint, provided to Secrets, seeks to have the judge removed from the case and even dumped from the bench.
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? NEW: We just filed a federal complaint against Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, the Obama-appointed magistrate who approved the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago.
We are DEMANDING that he be removed, immediately.https://t.co/SyjcMQhnBx
— Tea Party Patriots (@TPPatriots) August 24, 2022
.@JennyBethM: “Judge Reinhart acted unethically in approving the warrant to search President Trump’s residence…The entire episode…threatens the principle of ‘equal justice under law’ and the confidence of the American people in an unbiased judiciary.”https://t.co/CEHaML1YHu
— Tea Party Patriots (@TPPatriots) August 24, 2022