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Lawsuit Seeks Removal Of Judge Who Approved Warrant For FBI Trump Raid

https://www.theepochtimes.com/lawsuit-seeks-removal-judge-who-approved-warrant-for-fbi-trump-raid_4686112.html
https://tpp-resources.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/20220816-Complaint-vs-Bruce-E-Reinhart-Statement-of-Facts-Exhibits_Redacted.pdf

Tea Party Patriots Action filed a federal complaint against the judge
who approved the FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida
home.

“Judge [Bruce] Reinhart has a conflict of interest and a pattern and
history of hostility to President Trump,” said the filing (pdf).
Former President Donald Trump waves while walking to a vehicle outside
of Trump Tower in New York on Aug. 10, 2022. (Stringer/AFP via Getty
Images)

The lawsuit then listed several examples including purported Facebook
posts that show Reinhart had criticized Trump while praising the late
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.). Reinhart also reportedly donated to former
President Barack Obama and to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush when he was
running against Trump in 2015, the lawsuit said, citing publicly
available reports.

The lawsuit seeks to have Reinhart, a U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of Florida judge, removed from the case or even
removed from his position.

“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,” the suit contended.

“Clearly,” it further said, “Judge Reinhart is a partisan and has
publicly expressed his partisan views against former President Trump”
and that his “antipathy for the former President is such that he
should have recused when presented with the search warrant for the
highly problematic search of President Trump’s home in Florida.”

Days after signing off on the FBI search warrant, Reinhart ultimately
released the warrant and property receipt to the public.

During a hearing last week and on Monday, Reinhart suggested that he
would release the affidavit the Department of Justice used to seek the
warrant after the agency submits the document with redactions. He gave
the Justice Department, which has sought to block the release of the
affidavit, until Thursday at 12 p.m. to submit the redacted version.

The Tea Party lawsuit also cited a case involving Hillary Clinton in
which Reinhart had recused himself, arguing that he should have done
so with the FBI search warrant.

  “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 said.


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