| Events |
| Event Date | Status | Description | Result | PDF |
| 07/31/2025 | Filed | Report And Recommendation Of The Bd On Prof. Responsibility recommending disbarment. | | |
| 07/31/2025 | Filed | Motion For Leave to File Documents under seal (Petitioner Board on Professional Responsibility) | Granted | |
| 07/31/2025 | Filed | ***SEALED*** Supplemental Record #1 (Sealed Portions of the Record) (Electronic File) (Unredacted)***SEALED*** | | |
| 07/31/2025 | Filed | Record Index | | |
| 07/31/2025 | Filed | Record Copies (Electronic File) | | |
| 08/07/2025 | Filed | ORDER to show cause, within thirty days of the date of this order, why the court should not enter an order suspending respondent pending final action on the Board's recommendation. | | |
| 08/11/2025 | Filed | Redaction Certificate (Respondent) | |  |
| 08/12/2025 | Filed | Motion For Extension Of Time to File Exceptions (Redacted) (Respondent) | Granted | |
| 08/21/2025 | Filed | Exceptions (Respondent) | | |
| 08/26/2025 | Filed | ORDER granting the Board's motion to file under seal. F/O that respondent's lodged exceptions are filed. F/O directing that if they intend to seek pro hac vice admission in this matter, Mr. MacDougald and Mr. Destro are to file motions for leave to appear pro hac vice within ten days of the date of this order. . | | |
| 08/27/2025 | Filed | Motion For Extension of Time to File Response to the 8/7/25 Show Cause Order (Redacted) (Respondent) | Granted | |
| 08/28/2025 | Filed | Redaction Certificate (Petitioner Disciplinary Counsel) | | |
| 08/28/2025 | Filed | Opposition to Motion for Extension of Time to File Response to 8/7/25 Show Cause Order (Redacted) (Petitioner Disciplinary Counsel) | | |
| 08/29/2025 | Filed | Reply in Support of Motion for Extension of Time to Respond to Show Cause Order (Respondent) | | |
| 09/03/2025 | Filed | Motion to Assign Case to Panel that Heard Previous Appeal (Respondent) | Denied | |
| 09/03/2025 | Filed | ORDER granting respondent's motion for extension of time to file response by September 29, 2025. F/O that respondent shall file his brief within 40 days from the date of this order, and the Office of Disciplinary Counsel shall file its brief within 30 days thereafter. | | |
| 09/19/2025 | Filed | ORDER denying respondent's motion to assign the case to the prior division. F/O that the Clerk shall no longer serve Mr. MacDougald or Mr. Destro with copies of any orders in this matter unless and until they seek and are granted leave to appear pro hac vice. | | |
| 09/22/2025 | Filed | Motion To Appear Pro Hac Vice (Respondent) | Granted | |
| 09/22/2025 | Filed | Motion To Appear Pro Hac Vice (Respondent) | Granted | |
| 09/24/2025 | Filed | Appearance by Richard A. Samp (Amicus-Respondent Chenoweth, Amicus-Respondent Hamburger) | | |
| 09/29/2025 | Filed | ORDER granting respondent's motions to appear pro hac vice. | | |
| 09/29/2025 | Filed | Motion to Bifurcate Appeal (Respondent) | | |
| 09/30/2025 | Filed | Redaction Certificate (Amicus Curiae) | | |
| 09/30/2025 | Filed | Motion of former United States Attorney General for leave to file Amicus Curiae Brief in support of respondent Jeffery B. Clark, Esquire Response to show cause order (Amicus Curiae) | Granted | |
| 09/30/2025 | Filed | Brief (Redacted) (Amici Curiae Former Attorneys General) | | |
| 09/30/2025 | Filed | Motion to extend page limit and leave to late file (Respondent) | Denied as Moot | |
| 09/30/2025 | Filed | Response To Order To Show Cause (Respondent) | | |
| 09/30/2025 | Filed | Disciplinary Counsel's Opposition to Motion for leave to file Amicus Brief (Petitioner Disciplinary Counsel) | | |
| 09/30/2025 | Filed | Consent Motion of nine attorneys for leave to file Amicus Curiae Brief in support of respondents Brief showing cause why he should not be suspended pending final action on the Recommendation of the Board of Professional Responsibility (Amicus-Respondent Chenoweth) | Granted |  |
| 09/30/2025 | Filed | Brief (Redacted) (Amici Curiae Nine Attorneys) | | |
| 10/01/2025 | Filed | Redaction Certificate (Amicus-Respondent America First Legal Foundation) | | |
| 10/01/2025 | Filed | Motion of America First Legal foundation as Amicus Curiae to file a Brief in support of respondent (Amicus-Respondent America First Legal Foundation) | Granted | |
| 10/01/2025 | Filed | Brief (Redacted) (Amicus Curiae America First Legal Foundation) | | |
| 10/01/2025 | Filed | Disciplinary Counsel's Opposition to nine attorney's motion for leave to file Amicus Brief (Petitioner Disciplinary Counsel) | | |
| 10/02/2025 | Filed | Reply in support of Motion of former United States Attorney General for leave to file Amici Curiae Brief in support of respondent Jeffery B. Clark, Esquire response to show cause order (Amicus Curiae) | | |
| 10/02/2025 | Filed | Reply to Disciplinary Counsel's Opposition to nine attorneys Motion for leave to file Amicus Curiae Brief (Amicus-Respondent Chenoweth) | | |
| 10/03/2025 | Filed | Motion for extension of time to file Merits Brief (Respondent) | Denied as Moot | |
| 10/03/2025 | Filed | Redaction Certificate (Amicus-Respondent U.S. Department of Justice) | | |
| 10/03/2025 | Filed | United States Motion to extend the deadline for filing of an Amicus Curiae Brief in Support of Respondent in light of lapse of appropriations (Amicus-Respondent U.S. Department of Justice) | Denied | |
| 10/03/2025 | Filed | Redaction Certificate (Amicus-Respondent Article III Project) | | |
| 10/03/2025 | Filed | Motion of Article III Project Amicus Curiae to file Brief in support of respondent (Amicus-Respondent Article III Project) | Granted | |
| 10/03/2025 | Filed | Brief of Article III Project as Amicus Curiae in support of respondent (Amicus-Respondent Article III Project) | | |
| 10/03/2025 | Filed | Disciplinary Counsel's Opposition to respondent's Motion to bifurcate appeal (Petitioner Disciplinary Counsel) | | |
| 10/06/2025 | Filed | ORDER granting respondent's motion for leave to the extent it seeks a leave to late file his response to the show cause order and denied as moot to the extend it seeks leave to exceed the page limit. The Clerk shall file his response. F/O that the lodged amicus briefs in support are granted and the Clerks shall file the lodged briefs. F/O that motion of the US for extension of time is denied. F/O, sua sponte, Disciplinary Counsel shall file a reply to respondent's response to the show cause order by no later than October 10, 2025. F/O, sua sponte, that the merits briefing schedule is stayed pending the resolution of respondent's motion to bifurcate, and therefore respondent's motion for an extension of time to file his merits brief is denied as moot. | | |
| 10/06/2025 | Filed | Brief for the United States of America as Amicus Curiae in support of Respondent (Amicus-Respondent U.S. Department of Justice) | | |
| 10/08/2025 | Filed | Reply Brief (Respondent) | | |
| 10/15/2025 | Filed | Disciplinary Counsels reply to respondent Jeffrey B. Clark response to order to show cause (Petitioner Disciplinary Counsel) (Petitioner Disciplinary Counsel) | | |
| 10/16/2025 | Filed | Motion For Leave to File Surreply brief in Response to Show Cause Order (Respondent) | Denied | |
| 10/19/2025 | Struck | Surreply to office of disciplinary counsels reply to respondents show cause response (Respondent) | | |
| 10/22/2025 | Filed | Letter Received (Petitioner Disciplinary Counsel) | | |
| 10/27/2025 | Filed | Redaction Certificate (Amicus-Respondent Citizens United) | | |
| 10/27/2025 | Filed | Consent Motion of Citizens United to file a Brief as Amicus Curiae in support of Respondent (Amicus-Respondent Citizens United) | Granted | |
| 10/27/2025 | Filed | Brief of Citizens United as Amicus Curiae in support of respondent (Amicus-Respondent Citizens United) | | |
| 10/30/2025 | Filed | ORDER denying respondent's motion for leave and striking the surreply. F/O granting Citizens United's motion for leave to file its lodged brief. F/O that, within 20 days from the date of this order, respondent, Disciplinary Counsel, and the Board shall file responses, not to exceed 15 pages, providing their positions on what it means for an attorney to "have the burden of demonstrating a substantial likelihood of success with respect to the exceptions the attorney has taken to the Board's report" for the purpose of preventing an interim suspension under D.C. Bar R. XI, § 9(g)(1). | | |
| 11/18/2025 | Filed | Redaction Certificate (Petitioner Board on Professional Responsibility) | | |
| 11/18/2025 | Filed | Agreed Motion for Extension of Response Deadline (Petitioner Board on Professional Responsibility) | Granted | |
| 11/19/2025 | Filed | Disciplinary Counsel's Position on Substantial Likelihood of success under rule XI section 9(g) (Petitioner Disciplinary Counsel) | | |
| 11/20/2025 | Filed | ORDER granting the agreed motion for extension to time and directing that the deadline for the responses that the court's October 30, 2025, order directed from the Board, Disciplinary Counsel, and respondent is extended to November 25, 2025. | | |
| 11/25/2025 | Filed | Response of the Board on professional responsibility to the court's October 30,2025. (Petitioner Board on Professional Responsibility) | | |
| 11/25/2025 | Filed | Motion to Supplement Exceptions to BPR Report in Light of Presidential Pardon (Respondent) | | |
| 11/26/2025 | Filed | Motion for Leave to File Response to the 10/30/25 Order (Redacted) (Respondent) | | |
| 11/26/2025 | Lodged | Response on the Meaning of "Substantial Likelihood of Success" (Respondent) | | |
| 12/17/2025 | Filed | Rule 28(k) Citation Of Supplemental Authority (Respondent) | | |
| 01/14/2026 | Filed | Motion To Admit Pro Hac Vice (Respondent) | | |
| 01/26/2026 | Filed | Motion for leave to withdraw (Petitioner Disciplinary Counsel) | | |
| 02/02/2026 | Filed | Rule 28(k) Citation Of Supplemental Authority (Respondent) | | |