
As I often say (or think) in such situations, “Yikes!”
I’m going to send you to a thorough exposé over at Signal, a conservative website, which means its thorough coverage of this example of irresponsible conduct in a position of trust as well as a stunning “bias makes you stupid” display will be brushed off by some as just a partisan attack. I’m certain some ideological hostility helped prompt the piece, but it is accurate, which means that Signal has flagged a genuine ethics problem. Good for Signal.
D.C. Bar Senior Assistant Disciplinary Counsel Jack Metzler has posted dozens of inflammatory, openly partisan, politically-motivated comments on social media for years,. He has mocked, insulted and attacked conservative Supreme Court Justices (but never the liberal minority). He has reposted with favor attacks on Donald Trump and Elon Musk (for his conservative views.) It appears someone finally told him, “Hey, moron, what are you doing?” and he’s taken down the worst of the tweets. The internet is forever, though. And Metzler has moved to BlueSky, the Twitter/”X” alternative for progressives who can’t tolerate people and opinions that don’t toe the woke line. I regard that as signature significance for Trump Derangement and partisan indoctrination.
The left really hates Donald Trump so much that I think it’s fair to wonder about objectivity. With how many of them openly celebrate assassination attempts on Trump and cheer on the death of Charlie Kirk, there’s enough of a question that someone like this shouldn’t be on a bar committee.
Ideally, it would be filled with really boring apolitical people, but if not that, at least people who are level headed, left or right.
This guy isn’t just on the committee, he’s partially in charge of the prosecution.
Even worse.
I’ve long feared that progressive ideology may disqualify a person from any position of legal authority because progressives cannot help themselves and want to punish conservatives. That’s at odds with a free society though, so it’s a bit of a pickle.