Fordham Law Professor Thomas H. Lee shares his expert legal opinion with Above the Law on the validity of the U.S. Justice Department’s misconduct complaint against U.S. District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg, for allegedly violating judicial ethics code.
The complaint is hogwash, say legal scholars. “This is the sort of laughable thing that should go straight into the trash,” writes Joyce Vance on Substack. “Even if it’s referred for investigation, because it came from the Justice Department and the court feels some need to show it took it seriously, it shouldn’t go anywhere.” That view was shared by Thomas Lee, a professor at Fordham Law School, who tells me: “it’s hard to see what he is alleged to have said violates any judicial ethics rules.” And Radhika Rao, a professor at the UC San Francisco Law School, calls the charges “ridiculous – nowhere near grounds for impeachment!”
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