DA, ethics panel back judge in Trump hush-money case

In court papers made public Tuesday, the Manhattan district attorney’s office defended Judge Juan Manuel Merchan against Trump’s claims that he’s a “Trump-hating judge,” amplifying a court ethics panel’s recent opinion that a judge in his situation wouldn’t have to recuse himself.

Matthew Colangelo, a senior counsel to District Attorney Alvin Bragg, agreed that neither issue was grounds for Merchan to step aside. He painted Trump’s recusal motion as the latest in his “prolific history of baselessly accusing state and federal judges around the country of bias.” Prosecutors also responded on Tuesday to attempts by Trump’s attorneys to quash a pair of subpoenas, including a request for Trump’s full deposition during the civil case brought by E. Jean Carroll, a columnist who won a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation award against him. While Trump’s attorneys have described the request as overly broad, prosecutors said the full transcript and video of the deposition, not all of which has been released publicly, was “clearly relevant” to their own case.

In defending Merchan, Colangelo wrote that recusal is only required by state law when there’s “a direct, personal, substantial or pecuniary interest in reaching a particular conclusion.” That provision doesn’t extend to Merchan’s daughter working for Trump’s political foes, he argued. Colangelo also took issue with the central point of Trump’s argument for recusal: that Merchan acted inappropriately by involving himself in plea negotiations last year for Trump’s longtime finance chief.

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