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Chief Judge Jeffrey Kuntz of Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeals appears before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C., U.S. April 29, 2026.<\/p>\n

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Law and Crime reports an ethics complaint has been lodged against a judge who paved the way for President Donald Trump\u2019s stalled \u201cRussiagate\u201d defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize board.<\/p>\n

Press advocacy group Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) on Tuesday with the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission against Jeffrey Kuntz, chief judge of the Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast February, Kuntz ruled in President Donald Trump\u2019s favor in Trump\u2019s frivolous defamation lawsuit against the Pulitzer Prize Board, even though he was seeking a nomination from Trump to the federal judiciary,\u201d claims the FPF, adding that \u201che failed to recuse himself from the case or disclose his conflict of interest to the parties, in violation of ethical rules governing Florida judges.\u201d<\/p>\n

But then, two weeks after Kuntz ruled in favor of Trump, the White House Counsel\u2019s Office interviewed him for judicial vacancy he sought to fill. The FPF reports Kuntz was nominated to the federal bench last month and has even faced questions from lawmakers about his failure to recuse himself from the Pulitzer case \u2014 or even to disclose his conflict of interest to the parties.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTrump can\u2019t win his SLAPP suits on the merits, so he finds ways to corrupt the court system instead \u2014 from extracting bribes in exchange for merger approvals to settling litigation with his own agencies to rewarding judges who rule in his favor with lifetime appointments,\u201d wrote FPF Chief of Advocacy Seth Stern. \u201cIt defies credibility that \u2026 Kuntz didn\u2019t think the Pulitzer Board might want to know that he was applying for a job with Trump \u2014 a president infamous for transactionalism and political favoritism \u2014 while deciding Trump\u2019s lawsuit against them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn any event, the Florida rules don\u2019t leave it up to Kuntz\u2019s subjective, self-serving discretion \u2014 judges must avoid even the appearance of impropriety,\u201d Stern added.<\/p>\n

Law and Crime reports Trump\u2019s beef began with The New York Times and The Washington Post for their coverage of the Mueller investigation. When the Pulitzer board released a statement backing 2018 Pulitzer Prizes for the two papers Trump screamed \u201cdefamation\u201d and sued.<\/p>\n

Chief Judge Jeffrey Kuntz wrote the decision allowing Trump’s lawsuit to move forward in February 2025, agreeing that Trump “sufficiently pled that the 18 defendants engaged in a conspiracy to defame him.”<\/p>\n

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