possible rulings by judge aileen mercedes cannon in this case, since she has already shown such contempt for this investigation nearly being underway when it first came into her courtroom. that s right. and when i read the tweet by my friend, judge moody, i thought such a shame that this case, at least as it now stands, is not going to be tried before a normal judge, who would pay attention to the fact that these facts, it really does appear to be no defense. she would not tolerate if you were a normal judge. many of the bizarre arguments that former president trump is making. the argument, somehow, that the presidential records act, which has no bearing on these charges, somehow gave him the right to
keep national security information and withhold it from the government and lied to the government about having it. but we don t have a normal judge. that is really the problem. like bradley moss, i would love to give him the benefit of the doubt. but those of us who did that when she interfered without any legal basis in this very case of the extent that the unanimous 11th circuit, a very conservative court, not only reversed her twice, but castigated her for injecting herself in violation of the separation of powers and the way that they were feared with the executive branch. given all of that, i am desperately worried. in fact, one of the things that she said that the court of appeals had very little patience for, was because he was president in the united
so they can see justice done. if she s not removed, if she s not recused at the very minimum, in order could have public confidence in this most important of all cases, the bias of a judge, who has already indicated that bias and who was appointed by this president, doesn t prevent justice from being done. a news organizations have teamed up in the past, specifically to try to do this legally. the point about recusal is not, it s not an admission that you are biased. it is simply the rule about it simply says you should recuse. the judge should recuse if her impartiality might reasonably be questioned, might reasonably be questioned. that s all it is. that s the standard for this district judge to recuse. it goes beyond what you said, lawrence.
it s not just should. it s must. 28 u.s. code section 485 says that a federal judge must recuse him or herself in any case where that judges impartiality might reasonably be questioned. no person could look at the situation and fail at least to say that that standard is met. and if she doesn t recuse herself, then the 11th circuit, threw a writ of mandate muss and director to do so, which is very rare. if this is indeed a very rare case. it s a remarkable thing is that donald trump s lawyers argued that judge merchan, who is set to conduct the trial we, brought, pursuant to the alvin bragg indictment in manhattan, that he is someone that must recuse himself.
in liberty square housing project. his parents were immigrants from the bahamas he. went to segregated public schools in florida. he was a paratrooper and infantry officer in united states army and he graduated from howard university school of law in 1968. 1976, florida s governor appointed wilkie ferguson to the 11th judicial circuit court of florida. he was the first black judge to serve on that court and when he moved up in 1981 to florida s third district court of appeal he was, again, the first black judge to serve on that court when. president bill clinton appointed judge ferguson to the federal district of florida 1993, senate judiciary chairman joe biden managed the confirmation vote in the committee and on the senate floor, which was unanimous. ten years later, judge ferguson died of leukemia at age 65.