Justice Department files bar discipline complaint in Washington, D.C.
The Justice Department filed a complaint against D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel, and the D.C.
Court of Appeals Board on Professional Responsibility. The filing alleges improper use of bar discipline to regulate the official actions of federal government attorneys.
The complaint is linked to President Donald J. Trump's Executive Order Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government and a Presidential Memorandum on Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Courts.
It says the department is advancing those directives through the filing. The department's complaint seeks to nullify the D.C.
Bar's prosecution of former Assistant Attorney General Jeff Clark. That proceeding was based on internal deliberations relating to potential fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
The text says the 2020 presidential election remains the subject of litigation nearly six years later. No country is explicitly identified in the source text beyond the D.C. bodies named in the filing.
