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美国国家安全进步中心援引提及“北极霜”调查相关会议的司法部内部笔记
作者：阿什利·奥利弗 福克斯新闻
司法部就联邦法官詹姆斯·博阿斯伯格提起行为不当投诉
福克斯新闻记者大卫·斯彭特在《美国新闻直播间》节目中报道了司法部就联邦法官詹姆斯·博阿斯伯格提起正式行为不当投诉一事。
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独家报道： 保守派监督组织周二对詹姆斯·博阿斯伯格法官提起投诉，指控他不当与拜登政府司法部官员协调，针对前总统唐纳德·特朗普及其盟友展开大规模调查。
这份由保守派监督组织美国国家安全进步中心（CASA）提交、福克斯新闻数字频道获取的投诉，指控博阿斯伯格存在“可能的司法行为不当”，指其就“北极霜”调查与司法部官员进行磋商。这项联邦调查促成前特别检察官杰克·史密斯以2020年大选相关罪名起诉特朗普。
投诉援引了参议院司法委员会近日公开的2023年司法部内部会议笔记，其中提及史密斯团队与博阿斯伯格和贝丽尔·豪厄尔法官的简报会，当时“北极霜”调查以及另一项针对特朗普处理机密文件问题的调查正在进行中。博阿斯伯格和豪厄尔均为奥巴马任命的法官。CASA向华盛顿特区上诉法院提交的这份投诉，正值共和党与民主党任命的法官之间冲突加剧之际，这些法官主导了针对特朗普的调查和起诉的关键程序。
曾撰写反特朗普专栏文章的退休联邦法官在辞职前 reportedly 面临行为不当调查
美国哥伦比亚特区联邦地区法院首席法官詹姆斯·博阿斯伯格，2023年3月13日摄于华盛顿特区。（瓦莱丽·普莱施/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社）
CASA的投诉暗示，在对特朗普提起指控之前，博阿斯伯格和豪厄尔均不当参与了调查“策略制定”讨论。当时，博阿斯伯格即将担任哥伦比亚特区联邦法院首席法官，而豪厄尔则即将卸任该职位。福克斯新闻数字频道证实，CASA上周也对豪厄尔提起了类似投诉。这家共和党倾向的监督组织呼吁法院对博阿斯伯格展开调查。
“尽管各项事实强烈表明博阿斯伯格违反了司法伦理准则，但应迅速启动调查以核实情况，”CASA研究与政策主任柯蒂斯·舒贝写道。
参议院委员会公开的文件包含了2023年1月13日史密斯团队向司法部长梅里克·加兰简报的相关笔记，此次简报恰在加兰任命史密斯为特别检察官之后。笔记中提及与博阿斯伯格和豪厄尔的会面，两人均因针对特朗普的高调不利裁决而成为特朗普的死对头。
[特朗普在“高度冲突”的奥巴马提名法官接手信号聊天诉讼后发声：‘可耻’]
前特别检察官杰克·史密斯等待就其对唐纳德·特朗普总统的调查向众议院司法委员会作证，2026年1月22日摄于华盛顿国会山。（马克·席费尔贝因/美联社）
“[豪厄尔]认可我们以综合方式提起行政特权诉讼的策略，”史密斯团队在简报笔记中写道。综合动议允许合并而非零散提起诉讼，通常被律师用于简化法庭文件提交。简报笔记还提及将于2023年3月18日与博阿斯伯格举行会议，也就是他即将接替豪厄尔担任首席法官的次日。
CASA在投诉中指出，博阿斯伯格随后签署了多项保密令，也就是所谓的禁言令，禁止电话和科技公司在史密斯团队传唤共和党目标的电话记录或其他数据时通知他们。其中一些目标包括共和党国会议员，导致这些议员公开且多次谴责拜登司法部和博阿斯伯格，称其允许所谓违反宪法言论或辩论条款的行为。
美国法院行政办公室去年12月表示，根据法院标准惯例，博阿斯伯格不会知道禁言令适用于哪些对象，因为检察官不会告知他传票上列出的号码所有人是谁。史密斯也曾多次为自己的工作辩护，向国会作证称他遵守了司法部关于传票的政策。
CASA表示，联邦法律赋予法官的司法豁免权是有限制的。
[新文件曝光后，保守派指责杰克·史密斯在特朗普案件中与法官存在不当关联]
“不存在任何情形表明，立法本意是保护法官与潜在诉讼当事人会面，为其未来在本人主持的庭审中胜诉制定策略，”舒贝写道。“尤其当这些会议旨在帮助政府找到将政治对手送进监狱的方法时更是如此，而这正是‘北极霜’调查的初衷。”
博阿斯伯格的办公室拒绝就投诉置评。
贝丽尔·A·豪厄尔和詹姆斯·E·博阿斯伯格2023年3月16日在华盛顿特区E·巴雷特·普雷特曼联邦法院合影留念。（卡罗琳·范·豪滕/《华盛顿邮报》）
尽管批评人士称，作为CASA投诉核心的这些会面可能表明法官与针对特朗普的检察官之间存在勾结，但其他人则表示这些会面并无不妥，属于常规操作，旨在在重大调查展开之际，让本已不堪重负的法院系统提高效率。
史密斯的调查最终促成对特朗普的刑事指控，指控其非法试图推翻2020年大选并保留机密文件。特朗普称这些调查为“政治迫害”，指责所有相关人员存在腐败行为，而共和党人普遍谴责这些指控是滥用权力，旨在打压这位当时领先的共和党总统候选人。
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特朗普任命的法官艾琳·坎农驳回了机密文件案，认定史密斯的特别检察官任命程序不当。特朗普赢得2024年大选时，史密斯正对该裁决提起上诉。特朗普胜选后，史密斯援引司法部建议不起诉在任总统的政策，终止了两起案件。
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s DC judicial nemesis targeted in misconduct complaint over alleged Biden DOJ ties
April 21, 2026 12:19pm EDT / Fox News
Center to Advance Security in America cited internal DOJ notes referencing meetings about the Arctic Frost probe
By Ashley Oliver Fox News
DOJ files misconduct complaint against federal judge James Boasberg
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EXCLUSIVE:A watchdog group filed a complaint against Judge James Boasberg on Tuesday alleging he improperly coordinated with Biden Department of Justice officials on sweeping investigations tied to former President Donald Trump and his allies.
The complaint, filed by the conservative watchdog Center to Advance Security in America and obtained by Fox News Digital, accused Boasberg of engaging in “probable judicial misconduct” by consulting with DOJ officials about Arctic Frost, an FBI investigation that led to former special counsel Jack Smith charging Trump over the 2020 election.
The complaint cited internal DOJ meeting notes from 2023, recently made public by the Senate Judiciary Committee, that referenced briefings Smith’s team had with Boasberg and Judge Beryl Howell, both Obama appointees, as Arctic Frost and a separate probe into Trump’s handling of classified documents was underway. CASA’s complaint, filed with the D.C. appellate court, comes as part of a growing clash between Republicans and Democrat-appointed judges who presided over key developments in the investigations and prosecutions of Trump.
RETIRED FEDERAL JUDGE WHO WROTE ANTI-TRUMP OP-ED REPORTEDLY FACED MISCONDUCT INQUIRY BEFORE RESIGNING
James Boasberg, chief judge of the U.S. District Court, in Washington, D.C., on March 13, 2023.(Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
CASA’s complaint suggested both Boasberg and Howell were improperly looped into discussions about investigative “strategizing” before charges against Trump were brought. At the time, Boasberg was the incoming chief judge of D.C.’s federal court and Howell the outgoing chief judge. CASA filed a similar complaint about Howell last week, Fox News Digital confirmed. The Republican watchdog called for the court to investigate Boasberg.
“While the facts strongly suggest that Boasberg violated the canons of judicial ethics, investigation should be promptly opened to confirm,” Curtis Schube, CASA director of research and policy, wrote.
The documents released by the Senate committee included notes about a briefing Smith’s team gave Attorney General Merrick Garland on Jan. 13, 2023, just after Garland appointed Smith as special counsel. The notes referenced meetings with Boasberg and Howell, both of whom became Trump nemeses known for their high-profile adverse rulings against the president.
[TRUMP SOUNDS OFF AFTER ‘HIGHLY CONFLICTED’ OBAMA-NOMINATED JUDGE ASSIGNED SIGNAL CHAT LAWSUIT: ‘DISGRACEFUL’]
Former special counsel Jack Smith waits to testify before the House Judiciary Committee about his investigations into President Donald Trump, Jan. 22, 2026, at the Capitol in Washington.(Mark Schiefelbein/AP)
“[Howell] liked our approach of pursuing the executive privilege litigation in an omnibus fashion,” Smith’s team wrote in the briefing notes. Omnibus motions allow for consolidated, instead of piecemeal, litigation and are typically used by lawyers to streamline court filings. The briefing notes also referenced a forthcoming meeting with Boasberg on March 18, 2023, the day after he was set to succeed Howell as chief judge.
CASA noted in its complaint that Boasberg went on to sign numerous nondisclosure orders, also known as gag orders, that blocked telephone and tech companies from notifying Republican targets when Smith’s team subpoenaed their phone records or other data. Some of those targets included GOP members of Congress, leading the lawmakers to openly and repeatedly rebuke the Biden DOJ and Boasberg for allowing what they have alleged was a breach of the Constitution’s speech or debate clause.
The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts said in December that Boasberg would not have known who the gag orders applied to because prosecutors would not have informed him of whose numbers were listed on the subpoenas, based on the court’s standard practice. Smith has also defended his work repeatedly, testifying to Congress that he followed DOJ policy regarding subpoenas.
CASA said Boasberg’s judicial immunity, which federal law affords judges, has limitations.
[CONSERVATIVES ACCUSE JACK SMITH OF IMPROPER TIES WITH JUDGES IN TRUMP CASES AFTER NEW DOCUMENT DUMP]
“There is no world in which the statutes were designed to protect a judge meeting with prospective litigants to strategize with them on how to win a case in front of them in the future,” Schube wrote. “This is especially true when the meetings are designed for the government to determine ways to put its political opposition in jail, which is exactly what Arctic Frost was designed to do.”
Boasberg’s chambers declined to comment on the complaint.
Beryl A. Howell and James E. Boasberg pose for a portrait at E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, D.C., on March 16, 2023.(Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post)
While critics have said the meetings, which are central to CASA’s complaint, could indicate collusion between judges and prosecutors targeting Trump, others have said they were innocuous and normal, designed to achieve efficiency in an already-overwhelmed court system as major investigations took place.
Smith’s investigations eventually led to criminal charges against Trump alleging he illegally attempted to overturn the 2020 election and retained classified documents. Trump called the investigations a “witch hunt” and accused all involved with them of corruption, while Republicans widely condemned the charges as an abuse of power designed to take out the then leading Republican presidential candidate.
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Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, tossed out the classified documents case, finding Smith was improperly appointed special counsel. Smith was appealing that decision when Trump won the 2024 election. After Trump’s victory, Smith terminated both cases, citing a DOJ policy that advises against prosecuting sitting presidents.
Ashley Oliver is a reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business, covering the Justice Department and legal affairs. Email story tips to ashley.oliver@fox.com.
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