Trump Makes Strategic Watchdog Move Regarding Washington DC Judges Conduct

President Donald Trump reappointed Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton to the District of Columbia Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure for a term of five years.

Trump initially appointed Fitton to the Commission in 2020. Fitton made the following statement about his reappointment:

“Thank you, President Trump, for reappointing me to the District of Columbia Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure. I am honored and humbled by your confidence. This important responsibility is of course in addition to my duties as Judicial Watch president.

I look forward to my continued work with my fellow commissioners to ‘maintain public confidence in an independent, impartial, fair, and qualified judiciary, and to enforce the high standards of conduct judges must adhere to both on and off the bench.’

Our nation’s capital needs the best possible courts, especially in light of the public safety concerns that have gained national attention.”

The District of Columbia Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure was established by Congress to review complaints of misconduct against judges of the District of Columbia courts.

The commission’s authority includes reappointment evaluations (sent to the president) of associate judges and performance and fitness reviews of senior judges.

The commission has “the authority to remove a judge for willful misconduct in office, for willful and persistent failure to perform judicial duties, and for conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice, or which brings the judicial office into disrepute.

The Commission also has the authority to retire a judge involuntarily if the Commission determines that the judge suffers from a mental or physical disability which is or is likely to become permanent and which prevents, or seriously interferes with, the proper performance of duties.

In addition, the Commission may, under appropriate circumstances, censure or reprimand a judge publicly.”

Fitton revealed his concerns about the CIA regarding the September 9, 2025 Trump’s dinner at a Washington, D.C. restaurant

The event was disrupted by Code Pink protestors. They managed to get within a few feet of the president and other Cabinet officials. The protesters — who were chanting “Free Palestine” and calling Trump “Hitler” — were eventually escorted out.

“These people were allowed to get within arm’s length of the sitting president with knives and who knows what else in the restaurant available to them,” Fitton said at the time.

“I’m just really concerned about the president’s safety,” Fitton said. “He was almost killed twice supposedly under the protection of the Secret Service and then they walked him into a potentially dangerous ambush,” he said of the September incident, which took place at Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab.

President Donald Trump was shouted at by protesters from the group Code Pink at at Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab in Washington, D.C. (Code Pink) — President Donald Trump was shouted at by protesters from the group Code Pink at Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab in Washington, D.C.

The protesters were not violent, but Fitton expressed worry that they had apparently been able to obtain accurate information about Trump’s private dinner.