A conservative legal group filed a misconduct complaint Tuesday against a federal judge in Washington, D.C., after the judge gave a rare national television interview on the topic of former President Donald Trump’s gag order in New York.
Mike Davis, an ardent Trump supporter writing on behalf of the Article III Project, called Judge Reggie Walton’s interview on CNN last week “highly inappropriate” and “highly prejudicial” in a letter to the Judicial Council of the District of Columbia.
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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, DC (where Judge Walton presides, including over many related January 6th criminal cases), Atlanta, and Florida—who have now heard a sitting DC 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,” Davis wrote.
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Davis, in his complaint about Walton, defended Trump, saying the presumptive Republican nominee was “simply raising evidence” to expose Juan Merchan’s alleged conflict of interest.
“If a criminal defendant truly makes violent threats, a prosecutor can charge him with obstruction of justice, witness tampering, and related crimes,” Davis said. “But we have entered very dangerous territory as a country when attorneys accuse a criminal defendant of making a ‘violent threat’ against a judge for simply raising evidence of the judge’s potential bias.”
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