The judge in Donald Trump’s Manhattan hush-money criminal case has rejected the former president’s demand to step aside.
in part because his daughter, Loren, is a political consultant whose firm has worked for some of Trump’s Democratic rivals and because, they contend, he acted inappropriately by involving himself in plea negotiations last year for Trump’s longtime finance chief, Allen Weisselberg. Merchan said he previously rejected that argument when asked to exit the Trump Organization case.
“These modest political contributions made more than two years ago cannot reasonably create an impression of bias or favoritism in the case before the judge,” the panel wrote. The ethics panel, in its May 4 opinion, concluded that a judge in Merchan's situation “may continue to preside in the matter provided the judge believes he/she can be fair and impartial.”
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