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Manhattan DA calls Trump recusal motion ‘judge-shopping’

Donald Trump, Juan Merchan, Alvin Bragg

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg (left) (via Lev Radin/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images), Judge Juan Merchan (center) (AP Photo/Seth Wenig), Donald Trump speaks Tuesday April 2, 2024, at a rally in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office on Monday urged Donald Trump’s hush-money trial judge not to recuse himself based on the “transparently reverse-engineered” campaign of the defense to justify “attacks on the Court and the Court’s family,” specifically the judge’s daughter.

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg (D), called the renewed Trump recusal bid a “dilatory tactic” — that is, one designed to delay the April 15 criminal trial date — ultimately geared towards “judge-shopping” Acting New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan off of the case based on his daughter’s profession.

Late last week, Trump’s defense argued that Loren Merchan’s work as a Democratic Party political consultant for Authentic Campaigns rises to the level of “an actual conflict and an unacceptable appearance of impropriety” that requires her father to recuse himself.

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