Lawyers for ex-president ask Juan Merchan to recuse himself over alleged conflict of interest due to daughter’s work with Democrats
Donald Trump is again seeking to remove the judge overseeing his upcoming New York criminal trial from the case, arguing the judge’s daughter’s work for a political consultancy with Democratic clients poses a conflict of interest.
The former president and Republican presidential candidate last year made a similar request for Juan Merchan to recuse himself, but the judge denied the bid after an ethics panel found that his daughter’s work did not pose reasonable questions about his impartiality.
