Judge floats sanctions for DOJ lawyers after Trump's 'lunatic' post: 'I'm ordering you'

A federal judge ordered Justice Department lawyers to sign a government filing, invoking the rule used to sanction attorneys, hours after President Donald Trump called her a “crazed lunatic.”U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes made the demand Monday at a hearing in a lawsuit seeking to stop Trump’s overhaul of East Potomac Golf Links, a public course in Washington, Lawfare’s Roger Parloff reported in a live-blog of the hearing.Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward Jr., the Justice Department’s third-ranking official, signed the filing the government submitted Sunday night, according to Parloff.Reyes ordered Woodward to refile it with the signatures of every DOJ lawyer willing to sign, Parloff reported.“[DOJ attorneys], raise your hand if you’re willing to sign it,” Reyes said.Woodward called it “not an appropriate request.”“Right now, for Rule 11 purposes, which other [attorneys are] willing to sign this brief?” Reyes pressed.Rule 11 is the federal rule that requires lawyers to vouch...