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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    391 year ago

    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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      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?

    • @dimeslime@lemmy.ca
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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.

    • @torknorggren@lemm.ee
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      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?

    • ptsdstillinmymind
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      Corruption the US government and almost all world governments are super corrupt.