A Florida judge who issued a court ruling last year that critics said was unduly favorable to Donald Trump is set to preside Tuesday over the first pretrial conference in his landmark criminal case concerning the mishandling of classified documents.

  • prole
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    How does this woman end up with every fucking Trump-related case? What a joke. I guess recusal is only something expected of anyone left of center.

    • Chainweasel
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      271 year ago

      I know all of this is new and we’ve never had the need to prosecute a former president before, but you’d think at least one of the existing laws would prevent him from being in front of a judge he personally appointed as it’s a glaringly obvious conflict of interest. But here we are. I think someone needs to introduce a bill that explicitly prevents any elected official from appearing in front of a judge that they appointed.

      • prole
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        201 year ago

        Who could have predicted that making a recusal system 100% voluntary wouldn’t work?

        • snooggums
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          61 year ago

          It works when nobody is malicious and self serving, just like communism.

          • @stupidillusion
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            31 year ago

            All isms work perfectly as long as everyone participates as the rules of the ism dictate.

    • @[email protected]
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      From memory of a video saw on the topic, in the district where it was lodged there is only a list of 7 judges to pick from in florida. But it gets narrowed down to two for various reasons (security clearance?), and it turns out the other judge is busy or on holidays.

      Edit: this legal Eagle video covers a bit of the selection https://youtu.be/_S8R2Nri5pU. TL;DW: “random” from list of 7 judges but cannon has one of the highest chances of getting the case.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      She’s not on the Fulton county case, hasn’t been on the NY cases, won’t be on the impending J6 case, so…she doesn’t?

    • @QHC
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      -171 year ago

      If by every case you mean just this one, okay.

        • @Fredselfish
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          81 year ago

          This is a setup they want him to get off. How the fuck does this happen? She will flat out dimiss the case or if found guilty give him a 50k fine. She should be impeached.

      • @PaulDevonUK
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        151 year ago

        This is the 2nd case. Look into the first one to find out how bad she was.