“Judge, I believe you’re being unfair... please rule on that.”
“I rule that I’m being fair.”
(At least the road to an appeal has now been paved.)
An unlikely request if you thought you were winning.
Exactly.
And that's the point. The judge is a scumbag, the lawyer is documenting the judge's scumbaggotry.
This case, and the Stormy Daniels thing, are both chickenshit.