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DOJ Moves To Disqualify Judge Ross In Election Interference Case

The Eleventh Circuit's decision to identify a conflict of interest, but not identify the conflicted judge, leaves litigants guessing.

Josh Blackman | 5.29.2026 8:59 PM

The "subject judge" in the Eleventh Circuit attended a partisan event for a District Attorney. That would create a conflict of interest for any matters affecting that District Attorney. The Memorandum focused at some length about a potential conflict with the boyfriend's police department, but there was little focus on a conflict with the District Attorney.

The Eleventh Circuit's decision to make the reprimand private is confounding on so many levels. Perhaps the most problematic aspect is that the memorandum identified a clear conflict of interest, but deprived the public from knowing which judge had that conflict of interest. How could a litigant who has a........

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