House GOP Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik filed a misconduct complaint against US District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington, DC.
House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) filed a misconduct complaint on Friday against a DC federal judge, alleging the jurist recently “gave a highly inappropriate speech” that called into question her impartiality in previous rulings against former President Donald Trump.
The complaint, which Stefanik posted in full on X, asks for an ethics probe of US District Judge Beryl Howell for having “suggested reelecting President Trump will lead to fascism in America” and for entertaining “cozy personal relationships” with President Biden’s deputy attorney general, Lisa Monaco.
“I filed a judicial misconduct complaint against Judge Howell, because election interference by judges destroys public confidence in the federal judiciary, tears apart the fabric of our Republic, and is illegal,” Stefanik said in a statement. “It must end now.”
DC Court of Appeals Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan received the complaint, which was first reported by NBC News.
The Post has reached out to the court for comment.
Howell, who was nominated to the federal bench in 2010 by former President Barack Obama and served as the DC district’s chief judge from 2016 until this past March, delivered rulings overseeing Trump’s federal Jan. 6 case and his classified documents case in Miami, both of which were brought by special counsel Jack Smith.
She also supervised grand jury proceedings during special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of alleged collusion between Trump’s 2016 campaign and the Russian government.
