2 Aug 2024 8:03 am
Loren Merchan is the president of Authentic Campaigns, a Chicago-based political consulting firm with clients including Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who was the lead prosecutor in Trump’s first impeachment trial, and the Senate Majority PAC, a large Democratic fundraiser.
It is also troubling that this was not a random selection. The chief administrative judge picked Merchan due to his supervision of other Trump-related cases.
New York law 100.3 e(1)d(iii) states “a judge shall disqualify himself or herself in a proceeding in which the judge’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned, including but not limited to instances where the judge knows that the judge or the judge’s spouse, or a person known by the judge to be within the sixth degree of relationship to either of them, or the spouse of such a person has an interest that could be substantially affected by the proceeding.”
The argument of critics is that the daughter is obviously within “the sixth degree of relationship” and would be “substantially affected” by a conviction with her Democratic donors.
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