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Stefanik Complaint: Judge Merchan Was ‘Intentionally Selected’ To Ensure Trump Is Convicted
The Federalist ^ | May 29, 2024 | Monroe Harless

Posted on 05/29/2024 6:06:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., has submitted an official misconduct complaint to the New York State Unified Court System regarding the allegedly “random” selection of Juan Merchan as the judge over the ongoing case against former President Donald Trump in Manhattan, she announced Tuesday evening.

Her complaint comes toward the end of a criminal trial in which Trump has faced 34 felony charges stemming from accusations that he instructed his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, to pay “hush money” to pornographer Stormy Daniels to conceal an alleged past affair. Trump is accused of falsifying financial records by failing to label these payments as campaign expenses, an absurd allegation given that labeling such payments as campaign expenses would have been illegal.

Stefanik’s complaint pertains to Merchan’s assignment to three separate criminal cases related to Trump, including his ongoing criminal trial, the previous trial against the Trump Organization, and the upcoming trial against Trump ally Steve Bannon. The New York State Unified Court System’s rules state that criminal cases are assigned to judges randomly, but Stefanik doubts this rule was followed in Democrats’ lawfare crusade, which has proved to be their top 2024 campaign strategy.

“If justices were indeed being randomly assigned in the Criminal Term, the probability of two specific criminal cases being assigned to the same justice is quite low, and the probability of three specific criminal cases being assigned to the same justice is infinitesimally small. And yet, we see Acting Justice Merchan on all three cases,” Stefanik wrote in her misconduct complaint addressed to the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct and Inspector General Kay-Ann Porter Campbell.

“One cannot help but suspect that the ‘random selection’ at work in the assignment of Acting Justice Merchan, a Democrat Party donor, to these cases involving prominent Republicans, is in...

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To: Boomer

I wouldn’t have a problem with it being the other way around for the Wetback Cur, since he obviously doesn’t care about anyone’s constitutional rights...


21 posted on 05/29/2024 7:56:59 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: absalom01

“At thus point, no one can say with a straight face that Bragg’s case is anything other than a pure political attack.”

this “freeper” can:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4240700/posts?page=142#142


22 posted on 05/29/2024 7:59:15 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: chopperk

I think you have something there.   There has to be some reason they're all doing these things that are so obviously, blatantly harmful to their own country, and to their fellow citizens.

23 posted on 05/29/2024 7:59:37 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: absalom01

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4240700/posts?page=148#148

and through post #153


24 posted on 05/29/2024 8:31:11 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

She waits until the trial is over. What a fraud


25 posted on 05/29/2024 8:32:36 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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To: kiryandil

It would appear we have a couple of Democrats on this board.


26 posted on 05/29/2024 8:35:55 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Too late now.


27 posted on 05/29/2024 8:36:53 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: roving

Yes, yes we do.


28 posted on 05/29/2024 8:37:46 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: Songcraft

They don’t care for the citizens or for the country. They want power…unopposed power. They are psychotic tyrants. They want the entire world, but more likely they are just going to destroy it.


29 posted on 05/29/2024 8:42:19 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (We have not yet achieved peak crazy)
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To: chopperk

Interesting possibility. I don’t doubt cartel cash for open borders isn’t involved at some level in the Dem party.


30 posted on 05/29/2024 8:54:43 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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To: wiseprince

“And you funded it anyways. These fools all act like they are powerless. They literally gave Biden the money to do exactly what he’s doing and they spend subsequent months complaining and writing letters.”

WTH are you talking about? This is New York State Supreme Court, the US Congress has nothing to do with it.


31 posted on 05/29/2024 9:52:14 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: chopperk; All
"Maybe Merchan is on the receiving end, along with other Dems, from the Cartels who want Biden in office to keep the Border wide open. Maybe that is why so many Dems are leaving Office. Without the open Border, Cartels will wither and lose billions of dollars."

🤔

32 posted on 05/29/2024 10:12:00 PM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Pray for President Trump. Never be a slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: wiseprince

Right now the problem in NY is not everybody in the DOJ, which did not charge Trump with any of this. Certain key characters in the DOJ (Garland, Wray) need to be fired. Who else? DOJ should be cracking down on Merchan, and I would take a hard look at Hochul. Colangelo (Biden moved him from DOJ to help Bragg) should be in trouble, but the Biden gang is in on this too. We have a lot more to do.


33 posted on 05/29/2024 10:41:34 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I was surprised to hear Steve Bannon’s case “coincidentally” got “randomly assigned” to Merchan. Like his assignment to oversee the Trump case.

Funny how things like that happen./S


34 posted on 05/29/2024 11:32:31 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: roving

RE: It would appear we have a couple of Democrats on this board.

I could have sworn I smelled a stench. Now I know why.🧻💩🚽


35 posted on 05/29/2024 11:36:13 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

A misconduct allegation can, if serious enough, get a judge kicked off the bench or an attorney disbarred. But this isn’t it. The judge didn’t do the selecting, the chief administrative justice of the New York Unified Court System is the one in charge of selecting, so the complaint won’t stand.


36 posted on 05/30/2024 1:02:08 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: absalom01

Only reason that we’re hearing about Biden talking from the White House once the verdict is known is because they know it’s going to be a conviction

It’s like the third impeachment just feel so helpless sometimes I tell you yeah yeah we all vote but it doesn’t seem to mean anything anymore. This is all caused by the Democrats.

In my opinion, the Democrats orchestrated along with the whole COVID-19

The Democrats orchestrated along with themselves the January 6 thing. It’s being spoken about like it’s a known fact as part of our history when really they are the ones that set it up.

I have family members to tell me Trump is crazy based on lies. I stopped trying to explain everything to them because they they won’t hear it. They’re convinced and any goodness Biden has also based on lies. He’s an evil person along with everyone else the wife not based on lies the evidence is overwhelming putting Trump on trial.


37 posted on 05/30/2024 4:12:23 AM PDT by Uversabound (Might does not make right, but it does enforce the commonly recognized rights of each succeeding gen)
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To: Uversabound

Correction Covid was set up by the Democratic Party working hand-in-hand with China

Biden is evil along with his whole family, his wife, his children, his brothers sisters, etc., etc. and yet they go after Trump, who isn’t perfect, but certainly is not of the same criminality


38 posted on 05/30/2024 4:15:44 AM PDT by Uversabound (Might does not make right, but it does enforce the commonly recognized rights of each succeeding gen)
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To: Songcraft

It is easy to imagine that someone is coercing this Judge Merchan to act in the manner he is acting.

My question: One human being with a beating heart decided that Merchan shall be the appointed judge. By what method was that individual being coerced to appoint Merchan?

Who, exactly, was that person?

That is who I’d investigate.

There may be a lottery system in the court to draw Judges, but there is a way to override that if a judge recuses from a case, or if a judge just downright refuses to be on a case. That is when the beating heat makes the choice. I may be wrong, but let us find out who made the appointment.


39 posted on 05/30/2024 5:44:34 AM PDT by LachlanMinnesota
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To: rxh4n1

Yea. Biden and the Federal Government have no sway over what New York state persues...Obvious BS


40 posted on 05/30/2024 5:49:37 AM PDT by wiseprince (Me)
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