The D.C. Bar is trying to suspend Jennifer Kerkhoff Muyskens’ law license over her prosecution of violent rioters at Donald Trump’s first presidential inauguration on January 20, 2017.
The bar conducted a disciplinary hearing in March, urging a 6-month suspension for the former assistant U.S. attorney, who worked for the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office. The D.C. Bar has been accused of weaponizing the disciplinary system against conservative attorneys, including Trump’s DOJ attorney Jeffrey Clark, his former attorney Rudy Giuliani, his Weaponization Czar Ed Martin, and others.
Muyskens had an unblemished work history and has since quit the legal profession. She was accused in the complaint of violating one of the typical broad, vague ethics rules typically used by state bars to target conservative attorneys, “the duty to refrain from actions that seriously interfere with the administration of justice,” Rule 8.4(d). The other five ethics rules she allegedly violated primarily related to not disclosing some videos to the defense.
The Office of Disciplinary Counsel (ODC) for the bar claimed she didn’t turn over enough discovery, despite two judges instructing her to limit the amount of evidence she provided, and she was criticized for minor edits made by a police officer to Project Veritas videos exposing the planning of the riot. He had taken out parts that weren’t relevant, which is standard practice for officers.
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