Justice Department files misconduct complaint against judge in key deportations case

Washington – The Ministry of Justice filed a complaint on Monday alleging a fault by a federal judge supervising several cases involving the Trump administration, including a challenge to the legality of expulsion flights to El Salvador in March.

The complaint against James Boasberg, American district chief in Washington, DC, who was filed by the Chief of the City Staff of Prosecutor General Pam Bondi, Chad Mizelle, alleged that Boasberg made inappropriate comments at a judicial conference in March.

“During his stay,” wrote Mizelle, “Judge Boasberg tried to incorrectly influence the Roberts judge and about two dozen federal judges by moving away from traditional subjects to express his conviction that the Trump” administration would ignore the decisions of the federal courts and would trigger a constitutional crisis ”.

NBC News did not check the comments, which Mizelle said that Boasberg had done on March 11. The conference was not open to the public.

“Although his comments were inappropriate even if they had a base, they were even worse because judge Boasberg had no foundation,” added Mizelle in her five -page letter to chief judge Srinivasan of the American circuit of the court of appeal to Washington.

Mizelle continued saying in the complaint that the Trump administration complied with “all” judicial orders and that Boasberg did not identify any violation of judicial orders to justify what Mizelle called “her unprecedented predictions”.

Boasberg did not immediately respond to a request for comments on Monday evening.

Bondi wrote on X: “Today, in my direction, @thejusteedept has filed a fault complaint against the chief judge of the American district court James Boasberg for having made inappropriate public comments on President Trump and his administration.”

“These comments have undermined the integrity of the judiciary, and we will not defend this,” she added.

Boasberg is assigned to several notable cases involving the Trump administration, not more and more high level than the case of the Extraterrestrial Enemies Act, which was deposited in mid-March when three expulsion flights took off from the United States on the way to El Salvador. During an emergency hearing at the time, Boasberg ordered that all the planes that were outdoors and to El Salvador returned to the United States after the executive order invoking the extraterrestrial enemy law for deportations has been made public.

He then found a cause to initiate an outrage procedure to determine if the Trump administration was in deliberate violation of the judicial orders. However, a court of appeal interrupted the process.

“Having supposed President Trump would challenge judicial orders, judge Boasberg issued a [temporary restraining order] And threatened with sanctions – all on a false premise, “said the complaint, noting that Boasberg spoke about conference days before ruling on the bench in the deportations.” Such conduct violates the confidence of the litigants in a impartial judicial power and falls below the standards which safeguard the integrity of the judicial and public confidence in this integrity. “”

Mizelle asked Srinivasan to refer the case to a special investigation committee to determine whether Boasberg’s conduct constituted “the harmful driving to the effective and rapid administration of the courts of the courts”.

He also asked that the Boasberg extraterrestrial enemies affair be reassigned to another judge while the investigation proceeds and disciplinary measures be imposed, including a public reprimand and a reference to the judicial conference for examining the recommendations related to dismissal, if the committee finds poor conduct.