So here’s one question that I’d like to see answered.
Cases are supposed to be handed out to judges in a non-partisan way. There are 5 cases up for assignment to a courtroom. There are 5 judges on the list. Each judge gets one. Next week there are 4 cases. The first 4 judges get a case. Next week there are 5 cases. Judge #5 gets the first case and then back tot he top of the list.
Bragg delayed the Grand Jury vote, citing nonsense. Was the delay to make sure that this judge, one who presided over one of Pres Trump’s tax cases, “impartially” got the case?
If they had sent it to his courtroom, while skipping over other judges, absolute grounds for getting it reassigned, if not a dismissal. But, if Bragg plays games, runs the clock out and, whaddya know, the case just happened to land where it did. Who woulda thunk it?
i have no doubt it’s possible, maybe even happened
but i don’t know if bragg if smart enough to think of it
who ever pulls his strings is my guess
That’s common practice.
I have been in the NYC Supreme Court when they assigned cases. A clerk takes a case walks over to a bingo style hand cranked cage and spins it, reaches in, grabs a token indicating the judge, puts it together with the case.