Judge finds misconduct by Trump's DOJ in Luigi Mangione case [View all]

Source: Raw Story

September 24, 2025 12:10PM ET


President Donald Trump's Justice Department is under fire by a federal judge after uncovering "multiple employees ... may have violated" local rules guaranteeing a right to a fair trial for so-called "healthcare shooter" Luigi Mangione. U.S. District Court Judge Margaret Garnett wrote on Wednesday that Mangione documented several incidents in which members of the Southern District of New York made public statements that are in violation of Criminal Rule 23.1.

The judge shredded the DOJ, saying that she issued an order on "April 25, 2025, specifically identifying the strictures of this rule for counsel and directing the prosecution team to ensure that the highest levels of the Department of Justice, up to and including Attorney General Bondi, were aware of and understood they were bound by this Rule."

"It is the duty of the lawyer or law firm, and of non-lawyer personnel employed by a lawyer's office or subject to a lawyer's supervision, ... not to release or authorize the release of ... opinion that reasonable person would expect to be disseminated by means of public communications in connection with pending ... criminal litigation with which they are associated, if there is a substantial likelihood that the dissemination will interfere with a fair trial or otherwise prejudice the due administration of justice," the judge wrote.

Brian Nieves, associate deputy attorney general, reposted a commentary from DOJ public affairs staffer Chad Gilmartin on X. The comment celebrated Attorney General Pam Bondi pursuing the death penalty for Mangione, wrote legal analyst Adam Klasfeld, who runs the "All Rise" Substack.

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