Posted on 04/27/2024 6:50:01 AM PDT by Libloather
A federal judge on Friday declined to force the recusal of a fellow Joe Biden-appointed colleague in Hunter Biden’s “hacking” lawsuit against a former policy analyst in the Trump White House, writing that the effort failed just like the former president failed to remove a Clinton appointee from the never successful Trump v. Clinton RICO case.
U.S. District Judge Hernan Vera was the target of Garrett Ziegler’s recusal motion, which reasoned that Vera’s status as a 2023 appointee of President Joe Biden appointee, coupled with a donation to the president’s 2020 election campaign and the political “subject matter of the litigation,” raised reasonable questions about whether he could be impartial. But Vera was not the one who rendered a decision on recusal. The motion was referred to U.S. District Judge Monica Ramirez Almadani for a ruling, and she agreed with Hunter Biden’s lawyers that former President Donald Trump’s unsuccessful Trump v. Clinton RICO suit recusal bids were “instructive.”
Almadani, also a 2023 Biden appointee, wrote that Ziegler did not “point to any evidence” that Vera had “any connection to any litigant in this case” beyond the fact that he was appointed by President Biden and donated to the Biden campaign in 2020, three years before he was nominated as a federal judge.
Ziegler, failing to show “any evidence of bias stemming from extrajudicial factors,” himself confirmed that Vera’s “appointment and past campaign contributions alone and together do not warrant disqualification,” the judge said. Nor did Ziegler succeed in arguing that the politically charged nature of the case necessarily meant Vera had to step aside.
That’s when Trump v. Clinton came up again.
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A Pres. Biden appointed judge rules that another Pres. Biden appointed judge does not have to recuse because of bias.
Bea-u-ti-ful.
Never successful?
Uh, rather than air the merits in open court, the judge tossed Trump's likely airtight case against the criminal Hildebeast.
No republic can long endure two systems of justice.
Using the Trump v. Clinton RICO case and Clinton stooge-judge Donald M. Middlebrooks of SD Florida as the excuse.
Uh, rather than air the merits in open court, the judge tossed Trump's likely airtight case against the criminal Hildebeast.
Yes, Clintoon "judge" Donald Middlebrooks throws out a case against ****drumroll**** - Clinton's wife.
No two-tiered system of "justice" here.
Nothing to see - move along.
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