“A pro-Trump legal group founded by White House aide Stephen Miller is suing Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts…
The lawsuit was filed by America First Legal.”
“The complaint accuses both the U.S. Judicial Conference and the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts of performing certain regulatory actions that go beyond the scope of resolving cases or controversies, or administratively supporting those actions, which they argue are the ‘core functions’ of the judiciary.”
“It also argues that records held by the Roberts-led U.S. Judicial Conference should therefore be subject to the Freedom of Information Act requests, or FOIA requests, as a result.”
“AFL cited in its lawsuit recent actions taken by both the Judicial Conference and Administrative Office in 2023 to ‘accommodate’ requests from Congress to investigate allegations of ethical improprieties by Justices Thomas and Alito, and subsequently to create or adopt an ‘ethics code’ for justices on the high court.”
“‘Under our constitutional tradition, accommodations with Congress are the province of the executive branch,’ AFL said, adding: ‘The Judicial Conference and the Administrative Office are therefore executive agencies,’ and must therefore be overseen by the president, not the courts.”
“Plaintiffs for AFL… argued in their lawsuit that the Judicial Conference’s duties are ‘executive functions,’ and functions they allege must be supervised by executive officers ‘who are appointed and accountable to other executive officers.’
Further, AFL argued, ‘Courts definitively do not create agencies to exercise functions beyond resolving cases or controversies or administratively supporting those functions.’”
“In AFL’s view, this is also sufficient to put the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts — as it is overseen by the Judicial Conference — under the Executive Branch as well.
[AFL] argued that proposed framework ‘preserves the separation of powers but also keeps the courts out of politics.’”
Read the full story on AFL’s lawsuit here:
foxnews.com/politics/trump…
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