BREAKING: Judge denies Roger Stone’s request for recusal, writing that the request appeared to be 'nothing more than an attempt to use the Court’s docket to disseminate a statement for public consumption that has the words 'judge' and 'biased' in it.'
A federal judge denied former presidential adviser Roger Stone’s request for her recusal from a potential new trial, saying in an order Sunday that there was no factual or legal basis to Stone’s claims.
The judge, Amy Berman Jackson, of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, said that Stone's request appeared to be"nothing more than an attempt to use the Court’s docket to disseminate a statement for public consumption that has the words 'judge' and 'biased' in it."for obstructing a congressional investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
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