“...The judge assigned to the case in D.C. District Court, Paul L. Friedman, is a Bill Clinton appointee...”
Conflict of Interest...
Different judge should be assigned...If not, good grounds for appeal of the decision...
Yes, this is delicious, and about time.
Judge needs to recuse himself or be removed from the case somehow.
Of course, another Clinton supporter may take his place.
At the presentation of The Honorable Charles R. Richey Equal Justice Award from George Washington University Law School, ALI Secretary Paul L. Friedman... told the audience that when he allowed John Hinckley Jr. to take trips out of the hospital with his parents, “the hate mail he received was serious enough that he and his wife briefly got extra protection from the U.S. Marshals Service.”
His more recent decision (in July 2016) to allow Hinckley to live full-time out of the hospital didn’t receive as much negative feedback as he expected. “Thirty-four years after the event, any other patient at Saint Elizabeths Hospital, except one who tried to kill a president, would have been out a long time ago,” said Judge Friedman.
Needless to say this judge maybe should recuse himself.
If he had an ounce of integrity or fairness, he would recuse himself. But we know liberals have neither.
I doubt that would count as conflict. Would all Trump appointees have to recuse themselves, including the one that dressed down Mueller about his indictment of whatsisface the former campaign manager?