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President Donald Trump's rally in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday had one notable guest in attendance — Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Emil Bove. Now, multiple legal experts are questioning why a member of the judiciary was in the audience for a rabidly partisan event.

The New York Times reported Wednesday that Bove, who was one of Trump's personal attorneys before ascending to a top position in Trump's Department of Justice and eventually a judicial post, has been subjected to an official ethics complaint for attending the rally. While Bove didn't speak or stand behind Trump during his speech, he was spotted in the crowd by an MS NOW reporter and told them he was "just here as a citizen coming to watch the president speak."

However, Trump's rally pivoted sharply from its stated topic of addressing the high cost of living to the president's typical rally fare, like railing against immigrants from underdeveloped countries. During one part of the speech, Trump attacked Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and repeated a debunked conspiracy theory while suggesting the four-term congresswoman and naturalized U.S. citizen should be deported. ...

One pardoned January 6 defendant has attracted the attention of President Donald Trump's Department of Justice after he was seen in the vicinity of a high-ranking congressional Democrat's home.

Politico reported Thursday that 37 year-old Taylor Taranto, who received a pardon from Trump on the first day of his second term along with the other roughly 1,500 participants in the January 6, 2021 insurrection, was recently caught wandering the neighborhood of Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who is the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee. Federal prosecutors asked U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols to have Taranto incarcerated.

Nichols sentenced Taranto in October of this year to time served plus 36 months of probation after he issued a bomb threat and carried weapons in Washington D.C.'s Kalorama neighborhood in 2023, where former President Barack Obama lives. Taranto was seen in the neighborhood just one day after Trump posted the Obama family's address on his Truth Social account....

President Donald Trump was recently handed another loss in court, after failing to convince a Florida judge that he was owed money by the Guardian newspaper for reporting on a federal investigation involving his company.

Guardian reporter Hugo Lowell reported Monday on the ruling by Judge Hunter W. Carroll of Florida's Twelfth Judicial Circuit, who is an appointee of then-Gov. Rick Scott (R). Carroll granted an anti-SLAPP (strategic lawsuit against public participation) motion the Guardian filed, which defendants often file when alleging a lawsuit has been filed with the intent of intruding on First Amendment rights.

Additionally, Lowell reported that Judge Carroll found that reporting critical of Trump and his businesses could not be used by Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), which is the parent company of his Truth Social platform, to demonstrate actual malice in litigation....

A Republican lawmaker is pushing to impeach President Donald Trump's latest enemy — a "radical activist" judge the DOJ has previously targeted — but failed after a clerical error put a stop to the attack.

Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) announced Tuesday in a social post that he filed articles of impeachment against U.S. District Judge James Boasberg and his alleged role in the FBI's "Arctic Frost" investigation under former special counsel Jack Smith. Boasberg reportedly issued nondisclosure orders in Smith's investigation.

"Judge Boasberg abused his power by weaponizing the judiciary against critics of the Biden Administration," Gill wrote. "As part of the Arctic Frost Investigation, Judge Boasberg signed off on frivolous nondisclosure orders to conceal the fact that sitting US Senators were being surveilled. Not only was this action egregiously improper; it was a gross violation of the separation of powers.
Judge Boasberg is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors, is unfit for office, and should be impeached."...

A federal judge targeted by President Donald Trump and his Department of Justice recused himself Friday just hours before he was set to oversee a case involving the Trump administration's deployment of troops to Portland.

Judge Michael H. Simon has been replaced by Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, according to Anna Bower, senior editor of Lawfare Media, who wrote about the change on Bluesky.

Immergut has previously sided with the Trump administration's policies in a previous ruling, ordering an arrested farmworker to remain in ICE custody, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting. ...

A magistrate judge in Washington, D.C., was compelled to order the U.S. Marshal Service and D.C. Bureau of Prisons to defend themselves in court after they appeared to have lost a defendant in the system.

Reuters court reporter Brad Heath uncovered a seemingly frustrated demand about a defendant who had disappeared. It's the second time in recent weeks that the judge has demanded answers from the D.C. Bureau of Prisons, in particular.

Writing in a court demand, Judge Zia M. Faruqui has asked for a status conference on Wednesday for a man identified in the excerpt as Mr. Phillips, after it appears the system lost him. The judge seemed furious. ...