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In reply to the discussion: Justice Juan Merchan: This trial is starting. [View all]ancianita
(36,423 posts)with their arguments, motions and everything else even before, and during jury selection week, and it's now more than reasonable for them to get on with listening to the People of New York's case.
Criminal court trials are not locations for debate and/or democratic discourse. He is the JUDGE. He judiciously judges the legal teams. That's important. So I don't think this end of week statement is what's going to throw it.
Merchan is in the same class as Judges Engoron and Kaplan. He's not going to blow anything, and frankly the trmp team have proven that any tiny openings they have seen have resulted in nothing but the erosion of the court's atmosphere. Now that the jury of New York peers is seated, that behavior will taint both the defense lawyers and trump the criminal defendant. Not the judge.