Ex-prosecutor slams Trump's 'weak sauce' argument for hush money judge's recusal
Donald Trump's bid to remove the judge from his criminal hush money case isn't going to go over well, a legal expert said on Wednesday.
Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance weighed in on what she said is Trump's "second attempt at a motion to recuse the Judge... for essentially the same reasons as the first one."
"It’s in the form of a letter because the Judge now requires both parties to file a request for permission to file a motion before they actually file one due to Trump’s early disregard for deadlines. The practice is to send the letter and ask the court to adopt it as the motion if the Judge is going to grant permission. The Judge denied the first motion, and this one should meet a similar fate," she said. "The Judge’s daughter has a job. In that job, she works on behalf of Democratic campaigns. She has done work for notable Democrats, including Kamala Harris. To Trump supporters, including his lawyers, this translates as some variant of: the Judge’s daughter makes money because he’s keeping the case alive."...