She may not be the one who brought the charges against environmental lawyer Steven Donziger, but the federal judge tapped to preside over Donziger’s contempt trial will have to surmount bias allegations before the extremely rare court-ordered prosecution can begin.
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A Virginia judge has recused himself from two lawsuits over the removal of Confederate monuments in the former capital of the Confederacy, pointing to the fact the he lives near the statues.
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Prompting more than half the justices to recuse themselves, the Georgia Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear two lawsuits brought by would-be candidates for the court after a scheduled election for a vacant seat was canceled.
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Escalating his intervention in the court system, President Donald Trump took aim Tuesday morning at Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, saying they should recuse themselves from cases relating to the president.
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Senator Ron Wyden asked Attorney General William Barr on Monday to recuse himself from the record-breaking money laundering prosecution of Turkey’s state-run Halkbank, amid reports that Ambassador John Bolton told Barr that President Donald Trump has a compromised relationship with Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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The judge overseeing Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial denied Thursday that his recent terse admonishment of the producer requires him to step aside from the long-delayed prosecution.
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The judge in former Dallas cop Amber Guyger’s murder trial was blocked Friday from presiding over a contempt case against the district attorney accused of violating a gag order by giving a TV interview on the eve of trial.
Read moreRefusing to recuse himself from 23 lawsuits claiming widespread fraud in the $1 billion cleanup of a radiation-contaminated shipyard, a federal judge said Friday a Navy contractor’s claim of bias against him “borders on the frivolous.”
Read moreThe federal judge overseeing thousands of cases at the center of an upcoming nationwide opioid trial in Ohio has rejected a motion by drug distributors, pharmacies and retailers to recuse himself.
Read moreCalling the situation a “mess,” a retired judge argued in court Friday for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s handling of “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett’s hate-crime case.
Read moreAttorney General William Barr will not recuse himself from overseeing the special counsel’s Russia probe after consulting with senior ethics officials, the Justice Department said Monday.
Read moreThe Pennsylvania judge presiding over a police-shooting case agreed to hold a hearing next week on whether a cable news interview he gave after the shooting requires him to recuse himself.
Read moreVisibly emotional as he delivered his ruling, the judge overseeing Bill Cosby’s sexual-assault prosecution refused to step aside Thursday based on bias claims over his wife’s work.
Read morePlaintiffs who questioned the impartiality of Ohio’s chief justice last year, in one of the largest medical malpractice case in the state’s history, are fighting for changes in the state’s recusal rules after failing to disqualify a trial judge overseeing their cases.
Read morePresident Donald Trump directed his White House counsel to tell Attorney General Jeff Sessions not to recuse himself from the Justice Department’s investigation into potential ties between Russia and the Trump campaign, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit ruled unanimously Wednesday that a military judge must recuse himself from hearing the government’s appeal to reinstate charges against the accused mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.
Read moreAs implied at a hearing last week, U.S. District Judge James Donato on Monday denied anti-abortion activist David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress’s motion to disqualify U.S. District Judge William Orrick from proceedings surrounding their release of videos depicting meetings with abortion providers, which violated a court order.
Read moreA federal judge indicated Thursday he will likely nix an anti-abortion activist’s push to disqualify a judge who was weighing contempt charges against him for violating a court order.
Read moreTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton made his fourth request Monday evening to remove the judge overseeing his criminal securities fraud case, this time with a Dallas appeals court that refused to dismiss the case against him last year.
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