A Republican member of Congress and a Harvard professor are calling for a ban on special interest judicial junkets following Just the News revealing that Judge James Boasberg attended a privately-funded conference with an anti-Trump organization last year.
Just the News reported Sunday night that, months before he blocked President Donald Trump’s deportations of illegal alien gang members, Boasberg attended a privately-funded legal conference in Idaho that featured sponsors and speakers who have expressed clear anti-Trump sentiments — particularly on immigration and January 6th — and a theme that echoed the Democrat Party’s 2024 stated mission of “saving democracy.” Federal judicial ethics rules currently allow such junkets.
Congressman Andy Biggs, R-Az., said during a Monday interview on “Just the News, No Noise“ with John Solomon and Amanda Head that banning these privately-funded judicial junkets is “something that needs to happen” and said he would be including that ban in upcoming legislation, arguing it is time to say, “Look, no go. No more of that.”
“This is a problem, isn’t it? I mean, you really want to have your judges kind of stay aloof, if possible, from some of the top issues. … A responsible judge is going to recuse themselves, and they’re going to say, ‘Look, I can’t really get there because I have had, I’ve got unique knowledge. I’ve been engaged in things.’ In fact, you could even say it has the appearance of impropriety and then step away from it. But this judge doesn’t seem to have that capacity in him,” Biggs, the chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance, said of Boasberg on Monday, adding, “He should step aside now, of course, but we’re down the road quite a good ways here with him.”
Biggs added that “I think Democrats actually would support the ‘no junkets’ idea, so this is something that needs to happen, I do believe.” […]
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