Former U.S. Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark wants to move his ethics case to federal court, arguing the D.C. Court of Appeals has no authority to discipline him for advice he gave to other DOJ officials and former President Donald Trump.

Clark called the ethics case against him a “direct attack on [the] fundamental principle of separation of powers,” because he claims that the disciplinary arm of the D.C. Court of Appeals, which was created by an act of Congress and is the highest court for local disputes in D.C., has no power to supervise the internal deliberations of the federal executive branch.

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