The U.S. judge who appeared on cable television and criticized former President Donald Trump has been hit with an ethics complaint.U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton’s comments were “clearly inappropriate, defamatory, highly prejudicial, and outrageous,” the complaint, lodged on April 2, states.
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“Judge Walton must have known his interview was highly prejudicial to President Trump, who now must face jury pools–in New York City (starting in less than two weeks), Washington, D.C. (where Judge Walton presides, including over many related January 6th criminal cases), Atlanta, and Florida—who have now heard a sitting D.C. federal judge essentially accuse a criminal defendant of making ‘violent threats’ against another judge and his family for simply raising potential judicial bias by that judge presiding over his case,” the complaint states.
It notes that the code of conduct for federal judges says that a judge “should not make public comment on the merits of a matter pending or impending in any court.”
Judge Walton “clearly violated this canon,” according to the complaint. It said the judge should have followed his own advice regarding people in positions of authority.
The complaint was filed by The Article III Project. The group was founded by Mike Davis, a lawyer who previously served as counsel for Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), in the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.
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