All posts tagged "Recusal"

Former President Donald Trump has been allowed to move forward with a complaint to the court in the Manhattan hush money case, demanding the recusal of New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan.

The complaint, which spans 35 pages, lists a number of grievances that Trump has with the judge, including yet another attack on the judge's daughter, who he has repeatedly made a bogeyman in posts on social media.

"Your Honor’s daughter, Loren Merchan, has a direct financial interest in these proceedings by virtue of her ownership stake and leadership role at Authentic Campaigns, Inc. Based on public disbursements data, Authentic, which services exclusively Democrat [sic] clients, is the #21 ranked vendor in the country in connection with the 2024 election," wrote Trump's attorneys. "President Trump is now the presumptive Republican nominee and leading candidate in the 2024 presidential election."...

The judge presiding in Trump's criminal case over the alleged hoarding of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago case may be replaced.

"...There's kind of a three strikes rule," said conservative attorney and co-founder of the Trump-bashing Lincoln Project George Conway said during an appearance on CNN's "Anderson 360" to wade in on the fracas in Florida where U.S. District judge Aileen Cannon is presiding. "I've seen it happen."

"I clerked on the New York Court of Appeals in New York... and I've seen it happen from time to time," he added, referring to judges being removed....

Judge Cannon appears to be intentionally helping Donald Trump in his criminal case over confidential documents, and it might warrant an appeals court forcing her out, a legal expert said on Wednesday.

Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance once again raised the issue of Cannon's behavior in the Trump documents case, calling the pattern of delay "disturbing."

"Perhaps we’d view any one of them, on their own, as a judicial aberration. But the pattern of ruling upon ruling that is out of the legal mainstream and results in delay well past the point where this case should have been ready for trial is something that shouldn’t be ignored," Vance wrote on Substack. "Judges should not put their fingers on the scales of justice either for or against a defendant or any other party. Here, it’s impossible to avoid the conclusion that the scales are being tipped."...