Bondi Files Complaint Against Trump Critic Judge

The Daily Beast reports:

Attorney General Pam Bondi is going after a federal judge who spoke out against President Donald Trump. Bondi announced Monday that she has lodged a misconduct complaint against District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg, citing “improper public comments” he made about Trump and the administration. The Justice Department’s complaint demands an investigation into Boasberg and calls for his removal from the long-running legal battle over Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act.

Bondi’s complaint focuses on remarks Boasberg allegedly made a few days before he issued the order halting the flights to El Salvador at a meeting of the Judicial Conference—the federal judiciary’s policymaking arm—which Supreme Court Justice John Roberts attended. The Federalist, a conservative outlet, reported that Boasberg expressed concerns at the meeting that “the administration would disregard rulings of federal courts, resulting in a constitutional crisis.”

Read the full article. Meanwhile, two DOJ witnesses have said that Trump’s nominee for the federal bench, Emil Bove, himself called for defying rulings by federal courts.