Updated: The New York judge who is presiding Tuesday over the arraignment of former President Donald Trump, Judge Juan Merchan, is a Colombian immigrant who came to the United States with his family at age 6.
defense attorney to his legal team specifically for this manhattan investigation just yesterday, one day. before his his arraignment. what do you make of him? adding ton blanche to the team. well that it s been in the works quite frankly, behind the scenes quite a while that blanche was going to come in. it comes from the firm cadwallader, and that firm quite frankly, would have a conflict. in this case. the firm nicholas gravante at that firm represented mr weisberg, who you may see as a witness in the case. but so blanche has left. the firm is now on his own. and that that, i suppose, was the development because of this being retained in this case, but there was no surprise within the team about that. tallow. what does it say to you about the significance of how they re viewing this arrangement of what s going forward from today ? well i m sure they take it quite seriously. in fact, i know that they do is, you know it s very important for the team to be able to work together. now yes