Judge Skewers Trump's Request For Recusal In Hillary Clinton Racketeering Suit

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Like the other presidents before and after him, Bill Clinton appointed a number of judges to federal courts during his White House tenure. One of those was Donald Middlebrooks, who has been on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida for more than two decades.

That fact is not a good enough reason for Middlebrooks to recuse himself from hearing Trump’s lawsuit against his 2016 presidential nemesis, Hillary Rodham Clinton, the judge said Wednesday.

Middlebrooks denied a motion Trump filed Monday in which he claimed that his role as a judge in the case “amounts to prejudice so virulent or pervasive as to constitute bias against a party.”

The judge also made note of Trump’s apparent attempt to file the civil suit in a court whose judge was one of his appointees: “I note that Plaintiff filed this lawsuit in the Fort Pierce division of this District, where only one federal judge sits: Judge Aileen Cannon, who Plaintiff appointed in 2020. Despite the odds, this case landed with me instead. And when Plaintiff is a litigant before a judge that he himself appointed, he does not tend to advance these same sorts of bias concerns.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/judge-skewers-trumps-request-for-recusal-in-hillary-clinton-racketeering-suit/ar-AAVYOhw

Clinton Lawsuit Judge Laughs Trump’s Disqualification Demand Out Of Court

The judge overseeing ex-President Donald Trump’s mammoth lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and a slew of other 2016 political enemies rejected Trump’s request that the judge disqualify himself on Wednesday.

Trump had requested that that the judge, Donald Middlebrooks of the Southern District of Florida, step aside because he was appointed by Clinton’s husband, ex-President Bill Clinton.

In his decision, Judge Donald Middlebrooks said it wasn’t lost on him that Trump’s legal team had initially tried to file the lawsuit in a division of the Southern District of Florida that’s presided over by a Trump-appointed judge, Aileen Cannon.

“Despite the odds, this case landed with me instead,” Middlebrooks wrote in his decision.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/clinton-lawsuit-judge-laughs-trumps-disqualification-demand-out-of-court/ar-AAVYmwt

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1. Judge rejects Trump's demand he step back from suit against Hillary Clinton

This demand was so stupid that I am surprised that TFG could find an attorney to make this demand

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https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/06/judge-recuse-trump-hillary-clinton-00023650

A federal judge — nominated to the bench by President Bill Clinton in 1996 — on Wednesday emphatically rejected Donald Trump’s demand that he recuse from Trump’s sprawling lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, declaring that there’s no legitimate basis to demand that he step back from the case.

In a five-page order, Judge Donald Middlebrooks emphasized that he has never met either of the Clintons and was confirmed by unanimous consent in the Senate, requiring backing from both parties......

Middlebrooks observed that Trump filed his lawsuit in the Fort Pierce division of the Southern District of the Florida federal court and that the only District Court judge who sits in that division is a Trump appointee. However, under the court’s docketing system, the case wound up assigned to Middlebrooks, who sits in West Palm Beach.

“Despite the odds, this case landed with me instead,” Middlebrooks wrote, suggesting that Trump’s legal team was judge-shopping — seeking to get the case in front of a judge who might view it favorably. He also quoted an appellate precedent observing that recusal demands are “sometimes driven more by litigation strategies than by ethical concerns.”