A conservative legal group filed an ethics complaint against a Washington federal trial judge who decried threats to the judiciary in a television interview.
The Article III Project’s Tuesday complaint alleges that the March 28 CNN appearance by US District Judge Reggie Walton violated conduct rules that prohibit judges from commenting on matters pending before a court.
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Mike Davis, leader of the Article III Project and a former Republican Senate aide who played a key role in overseeing judicial nominations, said in the complaint that Walton’s interview was “highly prejudicial” to Trump. The former president is facing criminal charges in four different courts.
Davis specifically cited in the complaint part of the judicial code of conduct that states a judge “should not make public comment on the merits of a matter pending or impending in any court.”
“A federal judge does not have the right to appear on a nationally televised program—watched by prospective jurors—and lambast a criminal defendant for lawfully exercising his constitutional right to criticize a pending criminal proceeding,” the complaint says. “Judge Walton should not have made the appearance, and we respectfully urge you to investigate and remedy this ethical violation—to prevent this from ever happening again.”
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