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A conservative organization is speaking out against the federal magistrate judge who approved the FBI’s warrant to raid former President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach estate earlier in August.
The Tea Party Patriots Action has filed a federal complaint against Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart for signing off on the Mar-A-Lago raid.
In the complaint, filed with the Judicial Council of the 11th Circuit Court, Tea Party Patriots CEO Jenny Beth Martin argues that Reinhart has it in for the former president, so he should not have been involved in approving the warrant at all.
“Judge Reinhart has a conflict of interest and a pattern and history of hostility to President Trump,” said the filing.
The filing went on to include a number of times where Reinhart attacked Trump on social media and well as documenting his financial donations to Barack Obama and Jeb Bush’s campaigns.
Martin doesn’t just want Reinhart taken off the case, but removed from the bench entirely.
“Judge Reinhart should be disciplined and removed as a federal magistrate because of his failure to meet the standards of ethical conduct and character necessary for the public to have confidence in the nonpartisan role of a judge in a matter of this extreme public interest,” says the sixth of seven charges listed in the ethics complaint.
“The entire episode of the unprecedented search of the former president’s home, authorized by a political appointee of President Trump’s successor, and approved by a federal magistrate who has been outspoken in his opposition to and loathing of President Trump threatens the principle of ‘equal justice under law’ and the confidence of the American people in an unbiased judiciary,” the complaint added.
President Joe Biden issued a direct response on Wednesday when asked about the FBI’s raid on Donald Trump’s home.
“How much advance notice did you have of the FBI’s plan to raid Mar-a-Lago?” Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked Biden.
“I didn’t have any advance notice. None. Zero. Not one single bit,” Biden said before turning around and walking away.
The Conservative Brief reported:
A federal judge in Florida gave Trump until Friday to refine the legal arguments in his request for an independent third-party review of documents taken from Mar-a-Lago by the FBI earlier this month following an hours-long search.
“District Court Judge Aileen Cannon in the Southern District of Florida ordered Trump’s lawyers to elaborate on their arguments for why the court has the ability to step in at this time, explain what exactly Trump is asking for and whether the Justice Department has been served with Trump’s special master motion,” CNN reported.
“Cannon also asked Trump’s team to weigh in on any effect the request might have on a separate review conducted by a magistrate judge into whether any portions of the still-sealed FBI affidavit laying out probable cause for the search can be released,” the report added.
Earlier this week, Trump filed a motion for a “special master” to review the documents taken from Mar-A-Lago, not the Department of Justice.
