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A federal judge on Tuesday refused to delay Roger Stone's sentencing amid the fallout over the Trump administration's decision to intervene in the case against the president's longtime ally. The sentencing will move forward on Thursday at its originally scheduled time, the judge said, despite a new effort from Stone's defense team to get a new trial. "I think that delaying this sentence would not be a prudent thing to do under all of the circumstances," U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an Obama appointee, said during a telephone conference with the two sides. The original team of prosecutors...

Several months ago, during the early days of Roger Stone’s trial, the prosecution and defense teams were busy fighting over what jurors would end up making the final cut for the official jury pool and alternates. Obama appointed Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who has ruled against every conservative figure or cause that has ever come before her court, would routinely ignore the concerns of Stone’s defense team about juror bias. Judge Jackson didn’t care that potential jurors had political backgrounds or had given inappropriate and extremely biased answers in their jury questionnaires.In fact, Judge Jackson agreed with prosecutors to remove...

Posted on Wed, Apr. 14, 2004 Judicial Commission rules judge misrepresented facts in campaign JOE BIESK Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. - An eastern Kentucky judge ran campaign ads that misrepresented his judicial opponent and he should be publicly reprimanded, the Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission has ruled. Pike County District Judge Darrel H. Mullins had "engaged in misconduct in office," by misrepresenting facts in political ads against his opponent, John Doug Hays, in his 2002 judicial election, the commission ruled. "In a judicial election, the candidates must provide the public with truthful and accurate information. When a candidate misrepresents facts, the...