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. Judge Walton, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, went on CNN […]
Former U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney Jeffrey Clark faces possible disbarment as he goes to trial with the District of Columbia Bar’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel on March 26. That office charged him in 2022 with violating his professional ethics after Mr. Clark, then acting assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s Civil Division, drafted […]
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump, filed an official bar complaint on Feb. 12 against New York Attorney General Letitia James. Ms. James had brought the high-profile, multimillion dollar civil fraud case against the former president, in which a judge is set to issue a ruling any day now. […]
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was accused in an ethics complaint on Tuesday of “repeatedly” failing to disclose that her husband received income from medical consulting fees. The conservative-leaning Center for Renewing America, led by former Trump administration official Russ Vought, sent a complaint to the Judicial Conference, stating that the justice didn’t report […]
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) on Friday filed a complaint against a District of Columbia federal judge who has overseen a number of cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach and rejected arguments from former President Donald Trump’s attorneys. The ethics complaint was filed against Judge Beryl Howell, who was appointed by President Barack […]
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) sent a letter to the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct expressing “serious concerns” about the judge overseeing a civil fraud trial against former President Donald Trump and the Trump Organization. “This judge’s bizarre behavior has no place in our judicial system,” she wrote, describing “inappropriate bias” and “judicial intemperance” […]
Joseph Tacopina, attorney for former president Donald Trump, has accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of violating prosecutorial conduct in his case against Trump. In an interview with The Epoch Times, Tacophina noted that he had filed a recommendation to an oversight body requesting an investigation on Bragg. The remarks came a day after Alan […]
BRASILIA—The head of Brazil’s electoral court Alexandre de Moraes on Wednesday rejected a complaint from President Jair Bolsonaro’s allies to challenge the presidential election, which the incumbent lost by a small margin, according to a court document. Leftist former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva narrowly defeated Bolsonaro in the Oct. 30 runoff election. Lula’s […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—An Arkansas state senator won’t have access to Senate offices and can’t participate in legislative meetings after the Senate on Tuesday ruled he made a frivolous ethics complaint against a fellow lawmaker in retaliation for sanctions he received earlier this year. By a 26–4 vote, the majority-Republican Senate approved its ethics committee’s recommendation […]
Three Connecticut girls have filed a formal complaint about the state policy that lets biological males who claim to be females compete against girls, in the latest challenge against transgenderism.
When you find a drum set assembled on the street—or anywhere, really—don’t pass up the opportunity to live out your rock star fantasies. Oklahoma City Police Officer Nate Ross definitely didn’t. Last week, city officers responded to a “loud noise complaint,” the police department wrote on Facebook. Ross, who was the first to arrive, found […]
BEIJING— Germany’s Daimler has suspended a local sales franchise for its Mercedes-Benz brand in China after a customer complaint about service from the dealership went viral on social media. Daimler said in a statement on April 16 that the dealership in Xi’an City in the northwestern province of Shaanxi had reached an agreement with the […]
North Korea kept a low profile at China’s Belt and Road initiative meeting on May 14. This comes after United States sent a diplomatic note to China’s Foreign Ministry saying China is sending the wrong message by inviting North Korea to the summit, when the world was trying to pressure Pyongyang to stop its missile […]
