JUST IN: Rep. Elise Stefanik Goes After Judge Merchan!

This just in: New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik is going after Judge Merchan!

In an official misconduct complaint with the New York State Unified Court System, Stefanik is demanding an investigation into Judge Merchan’s so-called “random” assignment to Trump’s criminal case in NY.

Acting Manhattan Justice Juan Merchan is a far-left radical and Biden donor. Stefanik alleges that his daughter is raising millions from his work.

Along with Bragg’s case against Trump in New York, Judge Merchan was assigned to the Trump Organization’s tax fraud trial in 2022. He will also be the presiding judge in Steve Bannon’s criminal trial.

Check out Stefanik’s complaint in full here:

🚨🚨🚨 I just filed an official misconduct complaint with the New York State Unified Court System related to the “random” assignment of Acting Manhattan Justice Juan Merchan, a Biden donor whose daughter is fundraising millions off his unprecedented work, to criminal cases… pic.twitter.com/OsBjFc3qeI

— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) May 28, 2024

BREAKING: A member of congress just filed a misconduct complaint with the New York State Unified Court System against Judge Juan Merchan, asking the commission to investigate how Merchan keeps getting assigned to Trump cases

"One cannot help but suspect that the “random… pic.twitter.com/ziGaPl4W8U

— George (@BehizyTweets) May 28, 2024

Fox News has more:

New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik sent a letter to New York officials on Tuesday arguing there may have been “misconduct” within the New York Supreme Court system to ensure Judge Juan Merchan presided over the unprecedented NY v. Trump trial.

“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 fact not random at all,” Stefanik wrote in the letter, which she sent to the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct and the Office of the Inspector General of the New York State Unified Court System, warning of “potential misconduct.” The Daily Mail first reported the letter Tuesday.

Stefanik pointed to how Merchan has overseen a handful of cases involving Trump or his allies, including the NY v. Trump case, the criminal trial against the Trump Organization in 2022 – a case that found the organization guilty of tax fraud – and is set to oversee the upcoming trial of Trump ally Steve Bannon.

“The simple answer to why Acting Justice Merchan has been assigned to these cases would seem to be that whoever made the assignment intentionally selected Acting Justice Merchan to handle them to increase the chance that Donald Trump, the Trump Organization, and Steven Bannon would ultimately be convicted,” Stefanik continued in the letter.

Her letter called on the commission and the Inspector General to “investigate this anomaly to determine whether the required random selection process was in fact followed in the assignment of these criminal cases to Acting Justice Merchan.”

The Washington Examiner added:

House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) is requesting an investigation into the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal case in New York, pointing to his role in at least two other trials related to the former president in possible violation of state laws that dictate judges must be randomly assigned to cases.

In a letter sent to the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct on Tuesday, Stefanik requested the panel determine whether the appointment of Judge Juan Merchan to Trump’s hush money trial violates the Uniform Rules for New York State Trial Courts. Those rules dictate that judges must be assigned “pursuant to a method of random selection authorized by the Chief Administrator,” something Stefanik suggests is being ignored in order to convict Trump.

“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 fact not random at all,” Stefanik wrote in the letter, which was also sent to Kay-Ann Porter Campbell, the inspector general of the New York State Unified Court System. “If Acting Justice Merchan or any other Justices of the Court are found to have violated these rules, I would hope that the Commission would subject them to the required discipline.”

Stefanik pointed to Merchan’s current role overseeing Trump’s hush money trial in New York, where the former president faces 34 counts of falsifying business records. The GOP chairwoman also cited Merchan’s involvement in at least two other cases related to the former president, including the Trump Organization’s tax fraud trial in 2022 as well as former Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s criminal fraud case.

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