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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.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] stupidillusion 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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] 6 points 1 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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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