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and was assigned dozens of new cases.
The district court says it recognizes the seriousness of the matter, and the law gives every citizen the presumption of innocence and due process rights.
The Sixth Circuit Appeals Court, which will consider the misconduct complaint, had no comment.
The president's asking for more than $10 billion because of damage he says he suffered after his tax returns became public and an FBI search for classified papers at Mar-a-Lago.
The legal demands are putting his appointees at the Justice Department on the spot.
Both the attorney general and the deputy AG once served as Trump's personal lawyers.
A spokesperson there says officials follow the guidance of career ethics lawyers.
Most legal claims like these against the government involve crashes of postal trucks or medical malpractice in federal hospitals for veterans.
President Trump's demands for money are many times greater than in those run-of-the-mill cases.
He says he'll give any money he recovers to charity.
Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington.
Family members of Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaru say they were headed home on October 14th.
President Trump later said the kinetic strike killed all six men on board and tied them to the drug trade.
But a new lawsuit says the men from Trinidad were fishermen doing farm work and that the U.S.
violated international law and the Death on the High Seas Act.
The wrongful death case filed in a Massachusetts court is asking for economic damages for the men's relatives.
The lawsuit argues neither man presented an imminent threat to the U.S.