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Justice Department Takes DC Bar to Court in Jeff Clark, Citing Bias Against Trump DOJ Lawyer

The Justice Department is suing District of Columbia Bar officials for disciplinary actions against former Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark.

The DOJ complaint references information first published by The Daily Signal in an opinion piece by Zack Smith, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, specifically pertaining to ideological social media posts by D.C. Bar Senior Assistant Disciplinary Counsel Jack Metzler. This included calling Justice Samuel Alito a “Natural Born Fool.”

The Justice Department announced it filed a complaint against D.C. Disciplinary Counsel Hamilton P. Fox III, the D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel, and the D.C. Court of Appeals Board on Professional Responsibility, alleging improper use of bar discipline to target and regulate the official actions of federal government lawyers.

In June, the D.C. Bar Board on Professional Responsibility, with the backing of Metzler, recommended that Clark be disbarred for the advice he gave President Donald Trump and the actions he took after the 2020 election while serving as a Justice Department lawyer.

The Justice Department complaint, filed in U.S. District Court, asserts, “D.C. disciplinary authorities may not punish a United........

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