Complaint to the Florida Bar: ICE’s loudest courtroom champion endangers judges with flimsy gripes



James Percival official portrait at DHS headquarters Photo: Mikaela McGee

By Noreen Marcus, FloridaBulldog.org

Retired judges from across the nation who fear for their colleagues are using a Florida Bar complaint to turn a government lawyer’s inflammatory words against him.

The 128-judge coalition is pressing for an ethics investigation of James Percival, 40, general counsel to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the agency in charge of President Trump’s immigration crackdown. A Florida-licensed lawyer, Percival was chief of staff to Sen. Ashley Moody when she was the state’s attorney general.

Last month Percival drew the attention of right-wing media like Fox News by releasing a selective “worst of the worst” list of federal judges who questioned or blocked ICE raids and other DHS operations. He posted social media diatribes against those judges and others — all appointed by Democrats, the coalition’s Florida Bar complaint notes.




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