This opinion piece by Jonathan Turley, published on Fox News, criticises Chief Judge James Boasberg of the D.C. federal court for what the author describes as inconsistent attitudes towards judicial power. Turley notes that Boasberg reportedly complained after a D.C. appellate court ordered him to reconsider a case examining whether D.C.'s government had enforced anti-graffiti laws in a politically biased way, even as pro-life litigants accuse Boasberg himself of bias in a separate matter.

The piece centres on Boasberg's handling of a free speech case brought by pro-life activists who were arrested for writing pro-life messages in chalk. For a second time, Boasberg dismissed the group's claims without allowing them a jury trial, a decision the litigants view as evidence of the same kind of bias the judge has accused others of showing. Turley uses the episode to argue that Boasberg, who has been a vocal critic of the Trump administration's use of executive power, has himself exceeded appropriate judicial bounds in this case.