Posted on 06/18/2026 11:20:44 AM PDT by Red Badger
EXCLUSIVE — A Rhode Island federal judge is facing a judicial misconduct complaint accusing her of launching false and politically motivated attacks against Justice Department attorneys before referring them for possible discipline in a dispute over federal subpoenas seeking records related to transgender drugs and surgeries for children.
The complaint, filed Wednesday by the conservative Center to Advance Security in America (CASA), asks the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to investigate U.S. District Judge Mary S. McElroy over what the group calls an improper and partisan campaign against the Trump administration's DOJ personnel who appeared before her court.
“CASA is filing a judicial complaint against the unprofessional Rhode Island District Court Judge Mary McElroy for her inappropriate and inaccurate excoriations she made on the record against attorneys from the U.S. Department of Justice,” CASA Director of Research and Policy Curtis Schube said in a statement accompanying the filing.
“Not only did McElroy make these damaging and false statements, but she followed them up with a vindictive referral of these DOJ attorneys to the District of Rhode Island’s disciplinary committee,” Schube added.
The dispute traces back to a nationwide DOJ investigation that began under former Attorney General Pam Bondi, examining whether hospitals that provided transgender-related drugs or surgical procedures to minors violated federal laws involving fraud, misbranding, or improper billing practices. At the center of CASA’s allegations is McElroy’s accusation that DOJ attorneys misled a federal court in Texas about the status of communications between the government and the hospital.
Beginning in July last year, the DOJ issued administrative subpoenas to several hospitals, including Rhode Island Hospital, seeking records connected to drugs and surgeries provided to children who had obtained gender dysphoria diagnoses.
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An Obama judge.
Sorry, I looked at her a little more closely. From MSM:
Although McElroy was formally nominated to the federal bench by President Donald Trump in 2018, she was far from the president’s preferred pick at the time. She had previously been nominated to the same judgeship by former President Barack Obama in 2015 but never received a full Senate vote. Her eventual confirmation during Trump’s first term came after Rhode Island’s Democratic senators continued backing her candidacy, making her appointment more a product of longstanding Senate courtesy practices than a new ideological selection by the Trump administration.
The Blue Slip process has been a disaster.
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