"Fix the Court, a watchdog and advocacy group, alleged that Bove violated multiple sections of the governing Code of Conduct for U.S. judges in a judicial misconduct complaint filed Wednesday. "There is no prohibition, of course, against a federal judge attending an event at which a President is speaking," wrote Gabe Roth, the group's executive director, in the complaint addressed to Chief Judge Michael Chagares."
"However, the president's Pennsylvania event - billed as a celebration of his economic wins that turned into a campaign-style speech with attacks on the "radical left" - represented "a far cry from the State of the Union or a state dinner for its abject partisanship," Roth writes. He argued it "should have been obvious to Judge Bove, either at the start of the rally or fairly close to it, that this was a highly charged, highly political event that no federal judge should have been within shouting distance of.""
"Bove reportedly told a reporter from MS NOW at the event that he attended " just ... as a citizen coming to watch the president speak." The reporter shared a clip of Bove in the crowd as Trump called for Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a U.S. citizen from Somalia, to "get the hell out" of the country."
Judge Bove attended President Trump's Pennsylvania event, prompting Fix the Court to file a judicial misconduct complaint alleging violations of the Code of Conduct for U.S. judges. Fix the Court's executive director, Gabe Roth, asserted the event had devolved into a campaign-style, highly partisan rally rather than a ceremonial presidential occasion and argued a federal judge should not have been present. Bove told an MS NOW reporter he attended as a citizen to watch the president speak. A clip shows Trump calling for Rep. Ilhan Omar to "get the hell out" of the country. Critics have questioned Bove's ability to be impartial on the bench and noted prior controversies tied to his nomination.
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