Allegation first. At the Attorney General’s direction, the Department of Justice filed a complaint under 28 U.S.C. § 351. Courthouse News hosts a copy of the July 28, 2025, complaint PDF. It alleges that on March 11, 2025, at a Judicial Conference session, Judge Boasberg expressed concern that the Administration would “disregard rulings of federal courts” and trigger “a constitutional crisis.” The Federalist (Brianna Lyman, July 29, 2025) and Daily Wire reported the filing the same week. Those articles are reporting and commentary. The complaint is the allegation document.
Finding next. Chief Justice Roberts transferred the matter to the Sixth Circuit. On December 19, 2025, Chief Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton dismissed the complaint under 28 U.S.C. § 352(b)(1)(A)(i)–(iii) and Judicial-Conduct Rule 11(c)(1)(A), (B), and (D). Public copies of the order (Fix the Court / DocumentCloud) record that the complaint lacked sufficient source material for the alleged remark. Sutton wrote, in the order as quoted by the National Law Journal: “A recycling of unadorned allegations with no reference to a source does not corroborate them.”
Dismissal is not a finding that the remark was never uttered. It is a finding that the complaint, as filed, would not go forward. Epoch Times reported the dismissal when the order became public. Fox News reported the appeals-court dismissal of the DOJ complaint. A second, private complaint by James Fitzpatrick was also dismissed in the Sixth Circuit papers. That is a separate filing, also dismissed.