“Attorney Tlaib’s public statements have shown a complete disregard for the truth and serve only to enflame anti-Semitic hatred rather than promote the ends of justice,” the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, a free speech nonprofit, wrote in the complaint Monday to the Michigan bar.

“This request arises from Attorney Tlaib’s false, discriminatory, and anti-Semitic comments regarding the horrific massacre and other crimes the international terrorist group Hamas ruthlessly unleashed against innocent Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023, including kidnapping, rape, beheading children, burning people alive, and murdering a baby by placing him in an oven. In response to these atrocities, Attorney Tlaib made several public statements evincing deeply discriminatory, antisemitic views that call into question her character and fitness to practice law,” the group wrote.

[Interesting, but the process for formal disciplinary proceedings at the Attorney Grievance Commission — not really the “bar,” but with its usual powers — mostly foresees complaints coming directly from the practice of law or the breaking of laws rather than toxic support for terrorists. I don’t see this falling in either of those broad categories, and the House’s censure of Tlaib will likely let the AGCMI off the hook. Interestingly, the complaint doesn’t appear to include the Canary Mission data on Tlaib’s connections to Hamas fundraisers. — Ed]