A federal judge in Rhode Island is slamming the Trump administration for unfairly issuing a “public attack” on one of his colleagues that “put her in personal danger and undermined public faith in the federal courts.”

Background of the Case

Chief Judge John McConnell said that a special counsel “found sufficient evidence to conclude” that Kevin Bolan, a top lawyer in the Rhode Island US attorney’s office, hadn’t followed his obligation to be honest and transparent in court when he deliberately withheld information about a years-old homicide arrest warrant for an illegal immigrant. District Judge Melissa DuBose later ordered officials to release the illegal immigrant from ICE custody.

Following the release, ICE published a press release about the case that described DuBose as an “activist Biden judge” who knowingly let free “a violent criminal illegal immigrant who is wanted for murder in the Dominican Republic.”

Consequences of the Attack

“An agency you were representing, ICE, used this ruling to make an unfounded public attack on Judge DuBose. ICE falsely suggested, contrary to the true record, that when Judge DuBose released the petitioner, she knew he was sought in connection with a homicide in the Dominican Republic,” McConnell wrote in a letter to Bolan.

“This false public statement by ICE put her in personal danger and undermined public faith in the federal courts,” McConnell wrote.

Original reporting: El Paso News (HLL/CB) — read the source article.