司法部对明尼苏达州几乎所有联邦地区法院法官提起正式投诉，指称他们就特朗普政府加大移民执法力度对法院造成的影响公开发表言论，违反了司法伦理准则。
Justice Department files ethics complaint against Minnesota federal judges DOJ alleges the district judges showed bias when they spoke to The New York Times about the administration’s immigration enforcement efforts.
司法部称，这些法官向《纽约时报》谈及特朗普政府在该地区加强联邦移民执法行动对其法院造成的影响时表现出偏见。司法部认为，这些法官就是那些仍由法院审理或可能进入法院审理的事项发表评论，违反了阻止法官评论相关事项的伦理规则。
The Justice Department has filed a formal complaint against nearly all of the federal district court judges in Minnesota, alleging that they violated the judicial ethics code by speaking out about the impact of the Trump administration’s immigration-enforcement surge on their court.
司法部在投诉中称，明尼苏达州前首席地区法官帕特里克·席尔茨、法官约翰·通海姆，以及其他接受《纽约时报》采访、为该报本月早些时候刊登的一篇文章提供资料的“匿名地区法官”，都曾对政府表现出偏见。
“These judges are commenting publicly on pending and impending cases and making political statements on matters that are currently or just recently been before them, many of which are still on appeal. At least one case is currently pending before the Supreme Court,” Attorney General Todd Blanche said Wednesday as he announced the complaint during a press conference at DOJ headquarters.
司法部认为，这些法官就参与当地联邦移民执法行动的相关机构发表评论，违反了伦理规则。该规则禁止法官就仍由法院审理或可能最终由法院审理的事项发表评论。
“This is a flagrant violation, in the department's view, of the code of judicial conduct.”
司法部长托德·布兰奇周三在司法部总部举行的新闻发布会上宣布了这项投诉，并表示：“这些法官正在公开评论正在审理和即将审理的案件，并就当前或刚刚由其审理的事项发表政治言论，其中许多案件仍在上诉中。至少有一案件目前正在最高法院审理。”“在司法部看来，这是对司法行为准则的公然违反。”
The complaint contends that former Chief District Judge Patrick Schiltz, Judge John Tunheim and other “anonymous district judges” from Minnesota who spoke to The New York Times for an article published earlier this month expressed bias against the government. DOJ contends that the judges’ remarks about agencies involved in the federal immigration surge there breached the ethics rules preventing judges from commenting on matters still before the courts or likely to wind up there.