The ‘Get Trump’ Fix Is in With New York’s Judge Merchan
Fact: New York state Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan, who has issued a gag order to silence former President Donald Trump, has been revealed as the father of a far-left anti-Trump political activist daughter. And allegedly the husband of a one-time staffer for the infamous Trump antagonist, New York Attorney General Letitia James.
And the New York State Bar Association closes its eyes.
On the face of it, Merchan should recuse himself from Trump’s case. Which, as of this writing, he refuses to do. (RELATED from Jeffrey Lord: MSNBC Throws a Tantrum: Judge Luttig Rages at Trump)
Newsweek magazine has reported the following:
Judge Merchan imposed a gag order on Trump on Tuesday, barring him from making public statements about those involved in the case….
According to a June 2022 wedding announcement in Politico, Loren Merchan was the president and partner of Authentic Campaigns, a progressive political consulting firm.
The announcement read: “Loren Merchan, president and partner of Authentic Campaigns, and Taylor Harper, geographer at the U.S. Census, got married on Saturday in Moseley, Va. The ceremony was officiated by the bride’s father, New York County Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan.”
Authentic Campaigns has listed Vice President Kamala Harris‘ 2020 presidential campaign, Kamala Harris for the People, the Biden-Harris campaign and Schiff‘s super Political Action Committee (PAC) as clients.
Loren Merchan was also listed as the director of digital persuasion for the Kamala Harris for the People campaign in an archived January 2019 announcement….
According to [her] biography, Merchan has also had other roles in various marketing and communication firms, including Revolution Messaging, Bayard Advertising and Discovery Communications. She worked her way up to vice president of advertising at Revolution Messaging, a progressive political marketing firm.
Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett has captured the considerably obvious problem. His headline:
The New York Judge Who Gagged Trump Should Recuse Himself
Is it any wonder that many Americans have lost confidence in courts of law?
Jarrett writes:
[Judge] Merchan donated to Trump’s opponent, Joe Biden, and also gave money to an anti-Trump cause, although the amount was small.
But the judge’s daughter is also fair game for criticism. Loren Merchan is a public figure who runs a prominent progressive political consulting firm that handles outspoken Trump opponents like Adam Schiff, who was infamously censured by his own colleagues in Congress for peddling endless lies about Trump and the notorious Russia Hoax.
Significantly, Merchan’s daughter has a financial or economic interest in her father’s case. She and her clients raised some $93 million in campaign donations by citing the Trump prosecution in their solicitation mailings, according to reporting by The New York Post.
On this basis alone, Judge Merchan was obligated to recuse himself because a member of his family —which is identified a child under strict ethical guidelines—has a private, vested interest in the outcome of the case. Yet, he refuses to step aside despite the glaring conflict of interest. Meaning, the fix is in.
Bingo. Jarrett has nailed it exactly: “The fix is in.”
One of the most amazing things to come out of this massive and decidedly corrupt effort by far-left-wing legal authorities to “Get Trump” is the revelation of the lengths — decidedly unethical lengths — that they will go to accomplish their thoroughly unethical objective.
Indeed, Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz has written an entire book on that topic: Get Trump: The Threat to Civil Liberties, Due Process, and Our Constitutional Rule of Law.
At this point, Judge Merchan has made himself the poster child for judicial corruption. Knowing — knowing! — that he is both a Biden contributor and the father of a far-left anti-Trump activist, Merchan goes on blithely trying to silence presidential candidate Trump in a massive exercise in election interference.
To say the least, someone like this has no business in a judge’s robes.
The question now — as with other others in the legal community who have similarly disgraced themselves — is what the various supervisory authorities in New York will do to end this corruption.
Where is the New York Bar Association? Amazingly, if not surprisingly, it is sticking with its buddy Judge Merchan. Here is the headline from the association’s website:
New York State Bar Association Condemns Threats to the Family of Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan
The headline is accompanied by this statement:
Richard Lewis, president of the New York State Bar Association, issued the following statement about Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan:
“The mission of the New York State Bar Association is to protect the rule of law and to facilitate the administration of justice. That’s why we must condemn in no uncertain terms the unfounded attack on Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan and his family. All judges must be free to decide cases and issue rulings without fear for their safety or that of their family. While they cannot speak out to protect themselves, we can, and we will. Our system of justice depends on it.”
Which is to say that the New York State Bar Association will simply close its eyes to the blatant conflict of interest vividly illustrated by Merchan’s corrupt conduct.
Got it. Message received. The fix is in.
What a disgrace.
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