Judge Slams Trump Administration for ‘Serious Breakdown’ in Legal Ethics

[Timber Rattler]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/us/politics/judge-dubose-trump-administration-attacks.html

A federal judge slammed the Department of Homeland Security on Monday for making “erroneous and dangerous” statements after the department publicly attacked her for siding with a man it deemed “a violent criminal illegal alien.”

Trump administration officials had not told Judge Melissa R. DuBose that the man she was about to release on bond, Bryan Rafael Gomez, was wanted for murder in the Dominican Republic. The judge, who was appointed by President Joseph R. Biden Jr., ordered the release of Mr. Gomez on April 28 after he filed a petition challenging the legality of his detention.

Two days later, the Department of Homeland Security posted a news release attacking her on the basis of the information that it had withheld.

In a hearing on Monday, Judge DuBose said the government’s decision to withhold information about the case amounted to “a serious breakdown in the ethical codes,” and that she would consider imposing sanctions on the Homeland Security Department for misconduct.

“There was a decision made not to be truthful to the court,” she said.

The judge received profuse apologies from Kevin M. Bolan, who leads the civil division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island. During the hearing, he said he was “very sorry and terribly embarrassed.”

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Another headache for John Roberts...

[Timber Rattler]

So this judge is now attacking the DOJ attorney....

DOJ attorney referred for discipline over withheld info regarding detainee wanted for murder

https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/judge-to-refer-doj-attorney-for-discipline-over-withheld-information

After the U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently criticized a federal judge in Rhode Island for releasing a man described as a “violent criminal illegal alien,” the judge said she is referring an assistant U.S. attorney "for disciplinary proceedings" for not disclosing that the detainee was wanted in the Dominican Republic for murder charges.

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U.S. District Judge Melissa R. DuBose of the District of Rhode Island, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, made the decision after a two-day hearing focused on the government’s failure to tell her that Bryan Rafael Gomez, detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is wanted for murder.

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In a hearing Monday, DuBose called the decision to withhold information “a serious breakdown in the ethical codes.”

“After considering the facts and circumstances of this case, and specifically the [government’s] decision to withhold highly relevant information and their lack of candor to this court, … the court is referring Assistant United States Attorney Kevin Bolan for disciplinary proceedings consistent with the” District of Rhode Island’s local rules, DuBose said in a text order on the docket, according to Law360.

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These federal judges just can't get it through their thick liberal heads, that, per the U.S. Supreme Court and federal law, they have NO jurisdiction over immigration cases.