<p>Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elise-stefanik" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elise Stefanik</a> (R-NY) filed a complaint on Tuesday that raised doubts about whether the judge in former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>&#8216;s hush-money trial had been randomly selected for the case.</p>
<p>Rules for the New York State Trial Courts require criminal actions be assigned to a judge via &#8220;random selection&#8221; authorized by the chief administrator, Stefanik <a href="https://x.com/EliseStefanik/status/1795585619223081302" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote in a letter</a>. Yet Merchan is not only presiding over Trump&#8217;s trial but also oversaw a criminal trial against the Trump Organization and will be presiding over Trump ally Steve Bannon&#8217;s <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/25/politics/steve-bannon-trial-date/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fraud trial</a>.</p>
<p>Stefanik also pointed out that Merchan has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/nyregion/trump-trial-judge-merchan-donations.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">donated</a> to groups supporting Democrats and has a daughter who is a political consultant with a record of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/nyregion/trump-trial-judge-daughter.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doing work</a> for Democrat candidates.</p>
<p>&#8220;One cannot help but suspect that the &#8216;random selection&#8217; at work in the assignment of Acting Justice Merchan, a Democrat Party donor, to these cases involving prominent Republicans, is in fact not random at all,&#8221; Stefanik said.</p>
<p>Stefanik said the &#8220;simple answer&#8221; for why Merchan was picked for all three cases was that whoever made the assignment &#8220;intentionally&#8221; selected him to &#8220;increase the chance&#8221; of convictions.</p>
<p>The letter was addressed to the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct and Kay-Ann Porter Campbell, inspector general for the New York State Unified Court System Office of Court Administration.</p>
<p>Stefanik requested that both recipients &#8220;investigate this anomaly to determine whether the required random selection process was in fact followed&#8221; in the trio of cases she mentioned.</p>
<p>&#8220;If Acting Justice Merchan or any other Justices of the Court are found to have violated these rules, I would hope that the Commission would subject them to the required discipline,&#8221; Stefanik wrote. &#8220;And if any non-judicial employees of the Court are involved in such a scheme, I would hope that the Inspector General subject them to the appropriate sanction.&#8221;</p>
<p>The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/05/28/us-news/elise-stefanik-files-misconduct-complaint-against-judge-juan-merchan-over-random-assignment-to-trumps-trial/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> a statement from the New York State Office of Court Administration (OCA) that offered an explanation for Merchan&#8217;s involvement in Trump-related cases.</p>
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<p>“As we’ve said repeatedly, including in April 2023, Judge Merchan was assigned to supervise the special grand juries that investigated the Trump Organization and Allen Weisselberg as well as Donald Trump,&#8221; said OCA spokesperson Al Baker.</p>
<p>&#8220;He was, in turn, assigned the indictments that arose from those investigations, which is common practice since the judge supervising the grand jury investigation already has some familiarity with these often-complex cases and can manage them more efficiently,” Baker added.</p>
<p>Stefanik, the chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, is seen as a <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trumps-potential-vp-picks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contender</a> to be Trump&#8217;s vice presidential running mate. The congresswoman previously filed an <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/stefanik-files-ethics-complaint-against-trump-trial-judge-cites-daughters-work-group-promoting-dems" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ethics complaint</a> against Merchan, warning of a potential conflict of interest related to his daughter&#8217;s work.</p>

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