From the Federalist
A good government watchdog has filed a judicial complaint against an Obama-appointed judge for her instrumental role in the Biden administration’s anti-Trump lawfare, The Federalist has learned.
Submitted on Monday to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals by the Center to Advance Security in America (CASA), the complaint obtained by The Federalist “addresses probable judicial misconduct” by D.C. Senior District Judge Beryl Howell. The filing specifically highlights “recent reports that [Howell] consulted with members of the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) in strategizing on how to prosecute President Trump and other members of his administration, specifically the Arctic Frost investigation and prosecutions.”
As The Federalist previously reported, Arctic Frost ultimately became Special Counsel Jack Smith’s elector lawfare against Trump.
The complaint cites revelations disclosed in documents recently unearthed by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and other GOP senators. Those files appear to show Howell’s involvement in Smith and his team’s invasive efforts to acquire the phone records of Republican members of Congress and Trump-aligned figures like now-FBI Director Kash Patel.
Among the records released by Grassley and Co. were a series of January 2023 “AG Briefing” materials, which seemingly indicated plans by Smith’s team to brief Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland on their investigation. Included in these materials was a scheduled meeting with Howell.
While some of the information is redacted, the records show that the Arctic Frost investigators planned to brief the Obama appointee on the inquiry’s “pace over the last month.” More notably, however, the materials from Smith’s team indicated that Howell “liked our approach of pursuing the executive privilege litigation in an omnibus fashion,” which effectively means “the consolidation of various motions into a single filing rather than handling each separately,” as Hans Mahncke summarized in these pages.