The Trump administration is being investigated for concealing a murder warrant from a federal judge in Rhode Island, Melissa DuBose, so she would release a potentially dangerous immigrant from detention, all so they could attack that judge's record. But even now, Trump administration officials are trying to pretend all of this was the judge's fault, prompting outrage.
On Wednesday, the official X account for the Department of Homeland Security posted a quote from their general counsel James Percival in response to an article about DuBose from the far-right website The Federalist, saying, “Given the radical activists President Biden installed across the country, this case of judicial misconduct is neither surprising nor uncommon.”
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow for the American Immigration Council, was stunned at their ongoing duplicity.
"This is INSANE," wrote Reichlin-Melnick in a post to X. "Here's DHS *still* attacking Judge DuBose, even though: - ICE told the DOJ attorney he was not permitted to tell Judge DuBose the man seeking release was wanted for murder; and - The DOJ attorney followed ICE's request and did not disclose that fact to the judge!"
This comes after DuBose has ordered an ethics investigation into the Justice Department attorney who failed to provide the warrant information to her.
It also comes as the Trump administration faces increasingly furious courts over how they are handling immigration detention in general.