EXCLUSIVE — A Rhode Island federal judge is facing a judicial misconduct complaint accusing her of launching false and politically motivated attacks against Justice Department attorneys before referring them for possible discipline in a dispute over federal subpoenas seeking records related to transgender drugs and surgeries for children.The complaint, filed Wednesday by the conservative Center to Advance Security in America (CASA), asks the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to investigate U.S. District Judge Mary S. McElroy over what the group calls an improper and partisan campaign against the Trump administration‘s DOJ personnel who appeared before her court.“CASA is filing a judicial complaint against the unprofessional Rhode Island District Court Judge Mary McElroy for her inappropriate and inaccurate excoriations she made on the record against attorneys from the U.S. Department of Justice,” CASA Director of Research and Policy Curtis Schube said in a statement accompanying the filing.
“Not only did McElroy make these damaging and false statements, but she followed them up with a vindictive referral of these DOJ attorneys to the District of Rhode Island’s disciplinary committee,” Schube added.
