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Trump DOJ Challenges Leftist ‘Barfare’ With Lawsuit Targeting Jeff Clark’s DC Persecutors

The DOJ says the DC Bar’s persecution of Clark follows a pattern of ‘partisans’ weaponizing legal licensing against their political enemies.

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The Trump Department of Justice advanced its defense against leftist “barfare” on Wednesday by suing the Washington D.C. Bar disciplinary entities that spent years trying to ruin the lives and careers of their political enemies, including Trump-era DOJ official Jeffrey Clark.

The 48-page complaint outlines in detail how D.C. Disciplinary Counsel Hamilton P. Fox III, the D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel (ODC), and the D.C. Court of Appeals Board on Professional Responsibility weaponized the legal licensing punitive process to unlawfully “chill thezealous advocacy and candor of Federal officials” like Clark simply because they disagree with him politically.

Doing so, the DOJ argues, violates the Supremacy Clause and Article II of the U.S. Constitution “by unlawfully regulating and discriminating against the Federal Government and interfering with Executive Branch functions.”

“D.C. disciplinary authorities may not punish a United States official for disagreeing with a superior or coworker or for sharing an opinion just because those disciplinary authorities disagree with it,” the suit states.

The D.C. Court of Appeals Board on Professional Responsibility initially charged Clark in July 2022 with “attempted … conduct involving dishonesty” and “attempted … conduct that would seriously interfere with the administration of........

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