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.
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.
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.
Who could have predicted that making a recusal system 100% voluntary wouldn’t work?
It works when nobody is malicious and self serving, just like communism.