In a ruling issued in December but unsealed last week, the Sixth Circuit’s top judge told asshole Attorney General Pam Bondi tough shit if she doesn’t like Chief US District Judge James Boasberg sharing a negative opinion about convicted felon President Trump during a conference with other jurists last year, it’s not a judicial ethics violation to dislike the fat bastard, Reuters reports.
Bondi also had no evidence Boasberg had said anything. But even if she did “In these settings, a judge’s expression of anxiety about executive-branch compliance with judicial orders, whether rightly feared or not, is not so far afield from customary topics at these meetings – judicial independence, judicial security, and inter-branch relations – as to violate the Codes of Judicial Conduct,” wrote Sixth Circuit Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton, who had been detailed as a jurisdictional outsider to conduct the review in accordance with standard procedures to create distance.
Then again is there any such distance one could go to find a higher-ranking judge to agree that it’s unbecoming of a jurist to tell his colleagues that a litigant repeatedly violated court orders?