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Like a naked emperor spared a taboo observation about his fine attire, the Trump Justice Department has largely escaped an objective assessment about its misconduct complaint against Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg.
It is based on lies.
That is to say, the complaint is not merely false or deeply misleading. It is premised on a doctored quotation of what Boasberg allegedly said in a closed-door meeting and a misrepresentation of the circumstances in which the federal judge reportedly said it.
At the direction of Attorney General Pam Bondi, her chief of staff Chad 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.’”
Mizelle had been quoting a memorandum leaked to the pro-Trump website The Federalist, whose original article exposes the government’s sleight-of-hand.
According to the article, the leaked memo from the March 11th meeting of the Judicial Conference of the United States said: “District of the District of Columbia Chief Judge James Boasberg next raised his colleagues’ concerns that the Administration would disregard rulings of federal courts leading to a constitutional...
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