A federal judge in Orlando declined to impose the sanctions he threatened on the district’s top prosecutor, but offered a cascade of criticisms over how the office is handling cases related to Trump’s deportation agenda.
“The Government’s attorneys cannot allow an imperious client to separate them from their professional obligations,” Judge Roy Dalton Jr. wrote in an order Thursday. “The Court expects them to practice ethically even in unprecedented times.”
Dalton, an Obama appointee in the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida, wrote a blistering order in January saying US Attorney Gregory Kehoe and an assistant US ...