A hearing on the motion is scheduled for later this month.Ī spokesperson for the Manhattan district attorney’s office declined to comment on the filing urging Merchan to recuse, saying the office would respond in court papers. The Manhattan district attorney’s office has asked a federal judge to reject Trump’s bid, arguing that Trump himself said the payments were a private agreement. In addition to the motion for recusal, Trump’s lawyers have sought to move the New York criminal case into federal court, arguing that the allegations against Trump were tied to his duties as president. Trump was charged in April with 34 counts of falsifying business records over the repayments to his then-lawyer Michael Cohen for hush money payments made during the 2016 campaign. Trump has attacked Merchan as a “Trump-hating judge” as part of his public campaign attacking both the prosecutors and the judge in the case. And they asked the judge to explain his small-dollar political contributions made to Democrats in 2020, including $15 to the campaign of Trump’s opponent, President Joe Biden. Trump’s lawyers also argued that Merchan’s role in prosecutors’ efforts to secure cooperation from former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg was grounds for recusal. In a court filing made public Friday, Trump’s attorneys argued that New York Judge Juan Merchan should recuse himself due to his daughter’s politician consulting work, which included in 2020 the Biden campaign and now-Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign. Donald Trump is seeking for the judge overseeing his criminal case in New York to recuse himself from it, the latest bid by the former president to try to undercut the case now set for trial next year.
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