A Biden-appointed judge on Thursday ordered the release of two Maryland teenagers accused of assaulting a former Department of Government Efficiency staffer in a high-profile attempted carjacking.

Judge Kendra Briggs, named to the bench by former President Joe Biden , freed the 15-year-old boy and girl under strict conditions despite local prosecutors’ objections that at least one of them remained a danger to the community. The two are accused of trying to steal a car in Dupont Circle on Aug. 3, an incident that drew national attention when the group of teenagers allegedly brutally beat Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, a 19-year-old former staffer at DOGE, as he intervened in the attempted carjacking.

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