BUSTED: America First Legal Shows Judge Financially Entangled With His Own Trump Ruling...If this doesn't warrant a recusal, NOTHING does

Clash Daily ^ | February 17, 2025 | Wes Walker

[Red Badger]

The problem with judge-shopping to push your case through, there’s always the chance that the judges you are counting on to push your agenda have their own skin in the game.

That’s the case with a judge who has offered very dubious rulings on whether Trump can suspend his USAID money.

We’ve got a thread from America First Legal making the case online that Judge McConnell, the Rhode Island judge who put an end to Trump’s spending freezes, ought never to have heard that case in the first place.

The reason? He is *Personally* benefitting financially from his own ruling.

If the money gets cut, so does funding from a group whose board he has served on for as long as he’s held federal office — much of that time, serving as chair.

The Trump administration has violated a court order by refusing to reverse a freeze of billions in government funds, a judge ruled Monday. The ruling was the latest challenge to sweeping White House plans to cut costs and remake the US government. US District Judge John McConnell Jr previously ruled that the government should continue to fund programmes authorised by Congress. On Monday, he said the White House had defied a preliminary injunction that the judge issued after 23 Democratic state attorneys general filed a lawsuit to stop the funding freeze. The Trump administration said it would appeal the ruling. — BBC

It’s one of many lawsuits the Dems have ginned up against the Trump admin… and one of the more aggressive. But there’s a twist:

Judges are expected to recuse themselves from cases in which they have any personal stake in the outcome. When a company on whose board you sit is downstream of the threatened funding to the tune of millions of dollars… that would be an example of a reason to recuse.

And yet, he heard the case anyway. Ruled on it, even. And wouldn’t ya know it, the ruling happened to align with his personal interests.

But we can trust him, right?

Here’s AFL making the case in a thread on their X account:

MANY MORE THREAD PICS AT SITE...............

[Openurmind]

Yep!

[madison10]

I did wonder at your level of intelligence. :)

[BigB60]

It’s Presidents Day. It should be like landing on Free Parking in Monopoly. No actions can be taken against him today. My Post Office is closed. Why aren’t the courts?

[kiryandil]

He needs a tune-up, too...

[Openurmind]

:)