A Joe Biden-appointed judge rained on Donald Trump’s parade when she released from a youth holding facility two teens charged in connection with the assault of a former DOGE staffer.
The teenagers, a 15-year-old boy and girl from Maryland, had been held at Washington, D.C.’s Youth Services Center since being charged after 19-year-old Edward “Big Balls” Coristine was, according to President Trump, “beaten mercilessly” after an alleged carjacking assault in the city on Aug. 3.
But Judge Kendra Briggs ordered the teens out of detention and back to their caretakers, imposing certain conditions including electronic monitoring, a 24-hour curfew, and no contact with each other, The Washington Post reported.
The decision will almost certainly outrage Trump, who celebrated what he described as his administration’s crackdown on crime in Washington. “Washington D.C. will soon be great again!!!” he wrote on Truth Social Thursday.
“School and home, that’s it,” Briggs told the teens in a hearing Thursday in D.C. Superior Court.“ The fact that this court is stepping you down from Youth Services Center is a serious step.”
Briggs said she’d immediately set an emergency hearing should there be any violations.
The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment.
The news inflamed right-wing commentators and pundits, who expressed their frustrations on X.
Meet Biden appointed DEI Judge Kendra Briggs.This political hack has RELEASED the violent youth attackers that beat DOGE’s Big Balls from juvenile custody in DC.She needs to be removed. pic.twitter.com/B2CfNACMOy
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) August 22, 2025
Right-wing commentator Eric Daugherty expressed his disbelief at the decision, tearing directly into Briggs, appointed by former President Joe Biden.
“WTF: DEI Judge Kendra Briggs, appointed by Joe Biden, RELEASED the violent youth attackers of DOGE’s Big Balls from juvenile custody in Washington DC. The placement of these judges all across our nation is doing irreparable harm,” he wrote on X.
Daugherty added: “Now these thugs will learn no actual lesson and go out and do it again, potentially with a weapon, and their next victim may not survive like Big Balls did.”
Another right-wing influencer, Gunther Eagleman, said Briggs “needs to be removed” in a savage takedown on X.
“Meet Biden appointed DEI Judge Kendra Briggs,” he wrote. “This political hack has RELEASED the violent youth attackers that beat DOGE’s Big Balls from juvenile custody in DC.”
MAGA-aligned pundit Nick Sortor chimed in, branding the two teens “delinquents” and demanding they be “taken into FEDERAL CUSTODY if possible.”
“They have NO BUSINESS on the streets of DC!” he wrote on X.
Trump hasn’t publicly addressed on the decision, but said Thursday that “crowds are coming back, the spirit is high, and our D.C. National Guard and Police are doing a fantastic job.”
The White House declared a “crime emergency” in D.C this month while Trump claimed that crime in the nation’s capital was “out of control,” despite police data showing that violent crime in Washington dropped to a three-decade low last year.
Police are continuing to investigate the Coristine assault. The Metropolitan Police Department released photos of a person of interest on Aug. 7 and urged anyone with information to come forward.
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