The Department of Justice on Wednesday said it filed a complaint against Washington’s attorney disciplinary system for allegedly unfairly targeting federal lawyers and improperly intruding into sensitive executive branch decision-making.
The complaint, filed in federal court, targets the District of Columbia’s Bar disciplinary authorities, which oversee ethics investigations involving attorneys licensed in the nation’s capital. 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 were the subjects of the complaint.
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The DOJ alleges the D.C. Bar’s disciplinary system has engaged in a “pattern of discriminatory enforcement” against current and former federal attorneys, particularly those serving in Republican administrations, while violating constitutional protections tied to executive branch independence.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the complaint is the result of a history of the D.C. Bar acting as a “blatantly partisan arm of leftist causes.”
Associate Attorney General Stanley
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