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Judges Ruling Against Trump Administration Have Numerous Conflicts Of Interest

A judge who blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to expedite deportations of gang members once participated in a mock trial with former Vice-President Kamala Harris’ husband — and he is not the only judge stonewalling Trump’s orders that has a conflict of interest.

Chief Judge of the D.C. District Court James Boasberg temporarily blocked the Trump administration from using the Alien Enemies Act, a 18th-century wartime law, to arrest and deport alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

Now the president is accusing Boasberg of having a “conflict of interest” because of his past relationship with Harris’s husband, entertainment lawyer Doug Emhoff.

In 2022, Boasberg participated in a mock trial with Emhoff. Trump posted a photo of Emhoff with Boasberg at the Shakespeare Theater Company’s (STC) 2022 Mock Trial on Truth Social.

“SUCH A CONFLICT OF INTEREST!” Trump wrote.

The mock trial was moderated by Abbe David Lowell, who previously served as Bill Clinton’s lawyer during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. He was also Hunter Biden’s attorney amid legal battles related to a failure to pay his taxes and illegal possession of a firearm. In 1998, The Washington Post deemed Lowell the “Defender of Democrats in Trouble.”

Boasberg was recently assigned to a lawsuit filed against some of the officials in the leaked Signal chat, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard, and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Ratcliffe.

The editor-in-chief of The Atlantic was inadvertently added to a group chat about Houthi strikes on the messaging app Signal by National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, according to a piece published Monday. (RELATED: Gregg Jarrett Says Defiant Lower Court Judges Better Learn That ‘An Alien Can Be Removed Without A Hearing’)

Boasberg was appointed by former President Obama, and he has an extensive history of ruling against the Trump administration.

Boasberg was the sentencing judge for FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who altered an email about former Trump campaign aide Carter Page in order to support a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) application to spy on Page during the 2016 presidential campaign. Clinesmith was one of the key players in the FBI’s Operation Crossfire Hurricane, which investigated potential ties between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.

Prosecutors sought between three and six months in prison for Clinesmith, but Boasberg sentenced him to mere probation.

Boasberg also approved the FBI’s use of a warrantless surveillance tool, Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, when he presided over the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) in 2021.

This decision came after the court discovered the bureau had violated privacy rules regarding Section 702, according to The Washington Post.

Boasberg also ruled against Trump’s immigration policies during the first administration. In one instance in 2018, he sided with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and ruled against Trump’s efforts to detain migrants claiming asylum.

He was also involved in the eventual public disclosure of Hillary Clinton’s emails. Just before the 2016 election, Boasberg ruled that most of Hillary Clinton’s emails would not become public until after Election Day, The Wall Street Journal reported.

He ordered the State Department to complete the processing of 1,050 pages out of potentially 10,000 pages of evidence by November 4, according to the outlet.

Trump blasted Judge Boasberg on Truth Social Thursday and called for an investigation.

“There is no way for a Republican, especially a TRUMP REPUBLICAN, to win before him,” Trump said.

“He is Highly Conflicted, not only in his hatred of me — Massive Trump Derangement Syndrome! — but also, because of disqualifying family conflicts.”

Boasberg’s wife, Elizabeth “Liddy” Manson, has ties to Democratic causes. She donated to Democrats, including Elissa Slotkin for Congress in 2021, and the left-wing donation site ActBlue, FEC filings show.

She also founded an abortion clinic in Virginia called Meadow Reproductive Health and Wellness, according to her LinkedIn.

While much of the attention has centered around Boasberg, he is not the only judge with a potential conflict of interest.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson was also at the mock trial with Doug Emhoff, and she donated to Democratic candidates.

Jackson donated $1000 to Bill Clinton in 1992 and $500 to Alex Sanders in 2002, according to Open Secrets. Both of the donations occurred before she was a U.S. district judge.

Jackson sentenced former Trump advisor Roger Stone to more than 3 years in prison in 2020 after he was charged with obstructing a congressional investigation and witness tampering.

She harshly criticized Trump and claimed he “propagat[ed] the lie that inspired [January 6],” CNN reported.

Jackson also temporarily reinstalled the head of the Office of the Special Counsel (OSC), Biden appointee Hampton Dellinger, after he was fired by Trump this year, according to The Hill.

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Kamala is Anti-Israel. Her Husband’s Law Firm Represented the PLO

 

The PLO’s money arm was the largest foreign principal for his law firm.

Will Doug Emhoff’s Legal Career Be an Issue for the Biden-Harris Ticket?” the New York Times asked four years ago.

The newspaper noted that Emhoff, the husband of Kamala Harris, was a partner at DLA Piper whose “lobbying clients” had included the governments of Afghanistan and Bahrain, as well as the Qatari government-funded Al Jazeera Network and the Palestine Monetary Authority.

DLA Piper was good to the Emhoff-Harris family with the family taking home $2.7 million in 2019 and $1.2 million in 2020. “To aspire to create wealth is a good thing as far as I’m concerned. If that is what one chooses. I, on the other hand, have chosen to live a life of public service,’ Kamala had claimed. But the “life of public service” led to her husband’s role at DLA Piper.

And two DLA Piper clients are connected to a flashpoint in Kamala’s foreign policy.

As vice president, Kamala pursued a harsher line against Israel than Biden, virulently denouncing the Jewish state over its military campaign against Hamas terrorists after Oct 7.

DLA Piper not only represented Qatar through its state-owned Al Jazeera terrorist propaganda network, but has an office there as part of the Qatar Financial Centre Branch of DLA Piper Middle East. Qatar harbors Hamas and funded it along with other Islamic terrorist groups.

The enemy terrorist outlet hired DLA Piper around the same time that some members of Congress had asked why Al Jazeera was not complying with the Foreign Agents Registration Act and why the Department of Justice had failed to bring the Qatari operation into compliance.

This occurred in 2019 when Emhoff was still a partner at DLA Piper, though he was not involved with that particular case, that was part of a relationship with Qatar that predated his time there.

DLA Piper however also entered into an agreement with the Palestine Monetary Authority for $600,000 to “strengthen its relationship with the American government” signed with PMA boss Jihad Al Wazir. As of 2019, DLA Piper was still representing the ‘banking arm of the PLO and sending out invitations to members of Congress to meet with then PMA head Azzam Shawwa. By 2021, the PMA had become DLA Piper’s largest foreign principal.

The Palestine Monetary Authority came to prominence after a lawsuit by the family of a terror victim. Yaron Ungar, an American, along with his wife were murdered by Islamic terrorists in Israel. The family sued the PLO and Hamas and won a sizable judgment against the terrorists.

Since the terrorist groups aren’t themselves in America, the Palestine Monetary Authority, which manages funds from the terrorist area’s ‘banks’ had its assets frozen leading to an extended legal battle. The PMA claimed to be an independent entity but lawyers representing the terror victim’s surviving son pointed out that initial capital came out of the PLO’s ‘Palestinian Authority’, that its “its shortfall was to be paid by the PA, and its profits were to be paid to the PA. As to management, the PMA’s governor is appointed by the PA chairman as are its board members, their salaries are determined by him, and he has the right to terminate the PMA board members and officers. Additionally, the Ungars showed that the PMA regularly used the PA’s letterhead.”

While law firms can take on all sorts of clients and Douglas Emhoff did not appear to have been involved in the Palestine Monetary Authority case, as a partner he likely benefited from the overall prosperity of the firm and politically he and Kamala might have benefited from the relationships created through his role at one of the top big government law firms.

Freedom Center Investigates previously found that Kamala Harris began receiving political donations from lawyers at firms where Emhoff was a partner beginning with their marriage and then his move to DLA Piper after she became a senator.

But beyond that there is a complex triangle of relationships between the Biden administration, the Palestine Monetary Authority and DLA Piper.

The Biden administration appointed George Salem as the chairman of the USAID’s ‘Partnership for Peace Fund’  tasked with handing out $250 million to Israeli and ‘Palestinian’ peace projects just three months after he had spent six years as a registered foreign agent for the Palestine Monetary Authority.

Salem had previously lobbied for Qatar’s Al Jazeera, also represented by DLA Piper, and had entered into what the firm describes as having “entered into a relationship as Strategic Advisor with DLA Piper”. When Salem was appointed to head the $250 million fund, DLA Piper issued a press release.

A few things that Emhoff’s former law firm didn’t mention is that Salem was a co-founder of various anti-Israel groups, sat on the board of the American Task Force on Palestine and of UNRWA USA, and had also represented the Hamas front group, the ‘Holy Land Foundation’, Salem was not only its lawyer, but had supported HLF even before charges were brought against it. And Salem, a longtime figure in political circles, had donated to DLA Piper’s PAC.

Kamala had started as an insider in California Democrat politics, but even though she only spent a brief amount of time in the Senate, her husband’s very profitable law firms brought the Emhoff-Harris family into contact with foreign influence and foreign money in D.C.

Freedom Center Investigates had previously reported on the intersection between Emhoff’s previous law firm and its Cuban business, and Kamala’s opposition to the embargo on the Communist dictatorship. Similar questions might be asked about the intersection of Kamala’s hostility to Israel and the problematic and even terrorist clients of her husband’s law firm.

DLA Piper has represented Israeli companies and clients, but the relationship to the Palestine Monetary Authority and Qatar, is troubling, and raises questions about the Emhoff-Harris family.

Democrats have long used Douglas Emhoff, Kamala’s husband, who was raised in a Jewish family, as a defense against critics noting her troubling political views, but Emhoff’s law firm connections raise their own issues, both apart from his wife and perhaps reflective of her.

Kamala’s husband did not personally represent terrorists, terrorist sponsors or terrorist-linked entities during his time at DLA Piper (one of his clients at a previous law firm was however an arms dealer who was since charged and plead guilty) but he benefited from a firm that did.

In Washington D.C., it’s a better idea to follow the money than to follow the speeches. Kamala and her husband have made plenty of speeches, but more importantly, they cashed the checks.

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Daughter Of Kamala’s Jewish Husband Raises Almost $8 Million For Gaza

Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter raised almost $8 million for Gaza on her Instagram account.

Ella Emhoff made a post promoting a fundraiser “supporting urgent relief for Gaza’s children,” according to the New York Post. The 24-year-old influencer made no mention of murdered Israelis since Hamas’ terror attacks Oct. 7 despite having a Jewish father, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff.

“It’s of tremendous concern and I find it abhorrent,” Republican New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew said. “To be honest with you, I am kind of stunned by it. It’s disturbing to the maximum degree.”

The fundraiser operated by the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund, accumulated $7.8 million in donations so far, the outlet reported. The nonprofit based in Kent, Ohio has made more than $21 million in 2021, according to ProPublica.

“Ella is not Jewish,” a representative for the second stepdaughter told The Forward in 2021. “It’s not something she grew up with, Ella truly has no qualms with the faith, but she does not want to speak on behalf of Judaism, as she does not celebrate herself.”

Ella Emhoff appeared at New York Fashion Week as a model. The second stepdaughter exposed her left breast to photographers in 2022 while modeling a shear, lime-green “top” equivalent to a wrapped scarf around her neck and chest.

The White House announced a series of measures Monday intended to fight antisemitism on college campuses after pro-Hamas protests occurred across the United States. Among those contributing is Harris’ husband, who met with Jewish organizations and held roundtable discussions on antisemitism in Dec. 2022.

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