by Steven Richards
Trump's legal team tried several times to get Judge Merchan to recuse himself during the New York trial after the judge's daughter's work for Democratic campaigns was identified.
Chairman of House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan issued a subpoena Wednesday to the company headed by the daughter of the judge in Donald Trump's New York so-called "hush money" case seeking documents pertaining to the consulting service's work.
The subpoena is part of Jordan's efforts to investigate the allegedly political prosecutions against former President Trump. Trump's legal team tried several times to get Judge Merchan to recuse himself during the New York trial over the judge's daughter's work for Democratic campaigns through a consulting group. Merchan never recused himself and Trump was ultimately convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records.
"Of relevance to the Committee’s oversight is the impartiality of Judge Juan Merchan, the presiding trial judge, due to his refusal to recuse himself from the case in light of his apparent conflicts of interest and biases," Jordan wrote.
Merchan's daughter, Loren Merchan, is the President of a Democrat-aligned political consulting group called Authentic Campaigns, which did work on behalf of Trump's "political adversaries," according to Jordan.
You can read the subpoena below:
Previously, Authentic Campaigns declined to voluntarily comply with the committee's request for information about its work for Democratic campaigns, pushing Jordan to issue the subpoena.
Steven Richards
Source: https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/jim-jordan-sends-subpoena-company-headed-daughter-judge-hush-money-case
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