Biden judge rejects DOJ bid to halt probe of prosecutors in botched ICE protest case
A federal judge investigating whether prosecutors misled her court in the "Broadview Six" case against anti-ICE protesters canceled a hearing requested by the Justice Department to clarify her authority to conduct the inquiry.
- DOJ MOVES TO BOOT TWO FEDERAL JUDGES FROM IMMIGRATION CASES OVER REMARKS TO MEDIA: 'EXTRAORDINARILY IMPRUDENT' The canceled hearing follows a separate dispute over communications the Justice Department has declined to disclose to Perry.
- The Justice Department dropped the criminal case against the six protesters in May amid allegations of misconduct involving former federal prosecutor Sheri Mecklenburg, who later resigned.
- The inquiry began May 20, when Perry ordered prosecutors involved in redacting grand jury transcripts to appear in court and questioned them during a sealed hearing the following day.
District Judge April Perry, a Biden appointee, has ordered four federal prosecutors, including Chicago's U.S.
The testimony is expected to address prosecutors' knowledge of possible grand jury misconduct, the accuracy of their statements to the court, why grand jury transcripts were redacted and whether officials outside the U.S.
- On Monday, Woodward argued in a motion that certain communications involving federal prosecutors were privileged and should not be disclosed.
- "Ultimately, the Government’s professed lack of clarity about the Court’s inherent authority to ask lawyers who have made misstatements to or misled the Court to explain their actions is immaterial," Perry wrote Wednesday, canceling the Nov.
- Perry rejected the government's argument, writing that "the Government does not represent at least 3/4 of the individuals who have been asked to testify, two of whom have expressed their willingness to do so." Perry has ordered U.S.
- attorneys in the Northern District of Illinois — William Hogan, Matthew Skiba and Andres Almendarez — to testify under oath Monday about possible misconduct in grand jury proceedings involving the protesters.
- Perry rejected the submission Tuesday, finding it "noncompliant" because the government had redacted information identifying numerous senders and recipients in lengthy email chains.
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