A chief appellate judge threw out the Justice Department’s misconduct complaint against the district judge hearing a challenge to President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender people serving the military.
The complaint, lodged by then-DOJ official Chad Mizelle, accused Judge Ana Reyes of the US District Court for the District of Columbia of engaging in conduct during a hearing that “compromised the dignity of the proceedings and demonstrated potential bias.”
The department should have raised these concerns of bias by requesting that the judge recuse herself, not by filing a misconduct complaint, Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan of the US Court of ...