The Judge who will be in charge of the Manafort case is a black woman, Deborah Robinson.

[pnwmom]

https://www.bustle.com/p/who-is-judge-deborah-robinson-the-manafort-indictment-is-in-her-hands-now-3070693/amp

News broke Monday morning that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has officially brought charges against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Manafort's business associate Rick Gates. U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson will preside over the Manafort indictment, and a look into Robinson's storied 30-year career behind the bench shows her overseeing several high-profile cases involving drug lords, top White House officials, a former D.C. mayor, and even an NBA All-Star.

Robinson is no stranger to overseeing political scandals involving high-profile figures. In 2005, Robinson presided over a guilty verdict case that involved President Bill Clinton's former national security advisor Sandy Berger. Berger ultimately pleaded guilty to purposefully removing classified documents dealing with September 11 terror threats from the National Archives and destroying them by cutting them up with scissors, according to NBC. Robinson also upped the fine from $10,000 to $50,000 for Berger, saying that would more "sufficiently reflect the seriousness of the offense."

Robinson also presided over the trial of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a former White House aide to the George W. Bush administration who was convicted of lying to authorities and interfering with a 2003 investigation into the leak of a CIA agent's identity, according to The Washington Post. Libby was sentenced to 30 months in prison before President Bush commuted his sentence in 2007.

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[jberryhill]

1. Ah, well of course shes biased

They should try to get this in front of an unbiased white man.

[pnwmom]

2. Yes -- that's exactly what they'll be saying.

[Demtexan]

3. What goes around, comes around.

He just mistreated Mrs. Johnson and a Congresswoman.

[bluepen]

4. How insulting that some people are implying Judge Robinson

would make any decisions in this case based on anything other than the law.

I’ve seen people doing that for the last several hours. Pretty disgusting, and of course nobody can point to anything in her career that suggests she would do such a thing.

[cilla4progress]

5. She looks

Cool!

[onenote]

6. Not really. Just for the preliminary portion, such as hearing them plead

That's handled by Judge Robinson, who is a magistrate.

After the plea is entered and preliminary motions decided, the case goes to a district court judge -- in this case, Amy Berman Jackson.

At least that is my understanding.

[bdtrppr6]

7. let's hope justice

is served.

and she's not railroaded or just outright "done away with" before it's over. long road ahead still

[ehrnst]

8. Kicked & Recd.