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DOJ FIGHTS BACK

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/09/doj-fights-back.php

The Department of Justice has struck the latest blow in its ongoing battle with rogue Minnesota federal judges. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced this morning that DOJ has filed an ethics complaint against Judges Pat Schiltz, John Tunheim, and others who have spoken to the press anonymously.

When Pat Schiltz sat for a lengthy interview with the New York Times, in which he rehearsed his grievances against the Trump administration and made wild claims of wrongdoing against the administration, I was shocked. The Complaint of Judicial Misconduct, which is addressed to the Chief Judge of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, lays out the applicable standard:
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Here, there is no doubt that Schiltz and Tunheim have taken a partisan side in an ongoing controversy, siding with illegal aliens and violent “protesters” against federal law enforcement. Schiltz went so far as to tell the New York Times–the ultimate partisan outlet when it comes to the Trump administration–that the administration’s enforcement of immigration laws was a “grave threat to the rule of law” that put the United States on the road to being Russia, China, or North Korea.

GWB and WJC error and appointee, respectively.

JUDGE SCHILTZ SPEAKS

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/09/judge-schiltz-speaks.php

Now comes the Minneapolis Star Tribune to print Judge Schiltz’s response, which to my reading, violates the first rule of holes.

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In response to the complaint, Schiltz told the Minnesota Star Tribune he was acting “well within the ethical rules” for federal judges in his comments to the New York Times, as confirmed by legal ethics experts. He referenced an advisory opinion from the Committee on Codes of Conduct that says federal judges can “‘speak and write’ on core judiciary matters such as advocacy for the rule of law and judicial independence.”

“That is exactly what I did,” Schiltz said.

I don’t think that “speak and write” covers knowingly making false statements about parties with business before your bench. But, then again, I’m not a lawyer, much less a sitting federal judge.

    

PCIntern (29,161 posts)

For your viewing pleasure, Part 1462:

Beartracks (15,016 posts)
16. OMG He was so smugly pleased.
But of course it turned out that "I don't think you know..." applied to Schmitt himself.

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NBachers (19,963 posts)
7. I'm sitting here in the employee's break room laughing my ass off.

not a texan (117 posts)
8. I bet that poster wasted way more than 40 bucks of taxpayer money

This is all you have?? Pathetic

Social media has been sending out reports of running gun battles in a couple of Iranian cities on the coast.

No doubt the Iranian people liberating themselves would be horrible news for the left.

Bari Weiss is Destroying CBS News

https://www.danielgreenfield.org/p/bari-weiss-is-destroying-cbs-news

When 60 Minutes debuts its 59th season, the one thing we can be certain of is that the media will announce that it’s a disaster and blame Bari Weiss and clamor for government intervention.

The former New York Times columnist who had the temerity to not only leave the storied paper, but also start her own successful media venture, The Free Press, before getting hired to clean up CBS News, and to do all that while questioning wokeness and defending America and Israel, is more loathed than Trump in media circles. The media hates Trump, but it fears Bari Weiss.

Even before the first 60 Minutes episode of the season aired, the media was already running articles blasting Weiss for ‘destroying the journalistic legacy of CBS News’. The New York Times ran its preview by repeating the false claim that Weiss was “trying to insert political bias into the show”, which she did by asking for a comment from the White House about a 60 Minutes story.
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It would be awful indeed if Bari Weiss were to tamper with the journalistic legacy of CBS greats like Walter Cronkite, Les Moonves (accused of forcing a woman into oral sex), former 60 Minutes Executive Producer Jeff Fager (accused of sexually harassing women), former 60 Minutes correspondent Charlie Rose (accused of sexually harassing women), former 60 Minutes Executive Producer Don Hewitt (accused of sexually harassing women) making “accused of sexually harassing women” into an official requirement for CBS News legends.

At least there was Dan Rather, who broke the network’s curse of sexually harassing women by merely trying to pass off a Microsoft Word document as if it had come from the Vietnam War.

Obviously, Bari Weiss doesn’t belong at CBS News. She hasn’t even raped anyone yet.

(When Scott Pelley stomped off in a huff over Bari Weiss, the AP contacted Jeff Fager for a comment without mentioning he had been forced out over allegations of groping women. To the media, groping women is less of a sin than asking it to meet ethical standards.)

60 Minutes founder Don Hewitt had such an incredible legacy that one of his victims settled with CBS News in the 90s for $450,000 to keep quiet and then another $75,000 every year for the rest of her life so she would stay silent. This dirty deal, which paid $5 million to a woman to keep her quiet about what was going on at 60 Minutes, was only discovered in 2018. None of the intrepid 60 Minutes journalists busy targeting political opponents ever got around to it.

Looking at CBS Skews's real legacy.

The question is, for whom is it bakfiring?