"President Trump kicked off his campaigning for the midterm elections on Tuesday night, in a ballroom at the Mt. Airy Casino Resort, in the Poconos. He introduced the Pennsylvania senator David McCormick. ("He's here again, as usual. I can't get rid of this guy.") He introduced his Treasury Secretary ("the great Scott Bessent"); his Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright ("He can put his nose in the ground and tell you whether or not there's oil");"
"But Bove is not just any citizen-he is a federal judge with lifetime tenure and, with that, a set of ethical obligations. To become a judge is to agree to refrain from activities that you were previously free to engage in-from letting old friends buy you lunch to putting political lawn signs in your yard-as encapsulated in the "Code of Conduct for United States Judges.""
Emil Bove III, a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit since September, attended President Trump's midterm campaign kickoff at the Mt. Airy Casino Resort in the Poconos. Bove previously served as Trump's personal criminal-defense lawyer and as a senior Justice Department official. He sat in the third row and told a reporter he was "just here as a citizen coming to watch the President speak." Federal judges hold lifetime tenure and must follow the Code of Conduct for United States Judges, which requires refraining from political activity and accepting restrictions to preserve impartiality and public trust.
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