Former President Donald Trump's latest attempt to get the judge presiding over hisNew York criminal caseto recuse himself has been denied.It was the third time Justice Juan Merchan has rejected Trump's demands that he step aside from the case. Each effort revolved around claims that the judg...
Before dissecting Trump's immunity claims, Hellerstein dispatched quickly of the defense's oft-repeated claims that trial judge Juan M. Merchan had treated Trump unfairly — subjecting him to a gag order and refusing to delay the trial until after the Supreme Court ruled — because Merchan's ...
The judge in Donald Trump'scriminal hush money casein New York has granted the Manhattan district attorney's request for a limited gag order on the former president. The order, by Judge Juan Merchan, restricts Trump's public statements about witnesses and others. Statements made by Trump about...
New York Judge Juan M. Merchan has scheduled an April 15 trial date in Trump’s hush money case. (Brendan McDermid/Pool Photo via AP) By MICHAEL R. SISAK Updated 7:17 AM GMT+8, April 4, 2024 Share NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Wednesday rejected Donald Tr...
Trump’s lawyers — echoing his recent social media complaints — urged Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan to step aside from the case, alleging bias and a conflict of interest because his daughter is a Democratic political consultant. The judge rejected a similar r...
This week, as the hush-money-to-a-porn-star criminal case against the former president advances, Trump once again read from the same script: He tried to discredit New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchanby going after the jurist’s daughter. ...
NEW YORK —Manhattan prosecutors suggested Friday that Donald Trump violated a gag order in hishush-money criminal caseby assailing the judge’s daughter and making a false claim about her on social media. The Manhattan district attorney’s office asked Judge ...
The push to move the case has gone forward as attorneys for Trump have also sought a new state court judge. They asked in a June 1 filing that New York judge Juan Merchan recuse himself. Last year, Merchan presided over the trial of two Trump Organization companies that were found gui...
Steven Wu, appellate chief for the Manhattan district attorney’s office, noted that trial Judge Juan M. Merchan had already rejected Trump’s requests to move or delay the trial as untimely. “The question in this case is not whether a random poll of New Yorkers from whatever neighbor...
Juan Merchan denied Trump’s request for a recusal as Trump escalated his criticism of a different judge overseeing one of his other criminal cases.