Sen. J. D. Vance (R-OH) is calling for a national investigation into Justice Juan Merchan, alleging that he violated the First Amendment while holding the test for former president Donald Trump in Manhattan business information.
Vance, who is apparently considered to be Trump’s running mate, wrote a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday urging him to launch a probe into Merchan because of possible breaches of Title 18’s Sections 241 and 242.
The illegal gag order issued by Judge Juan Merchan is in violation of President Trump’s First Amendment right and is therefore clearly unlawful.
I wrote a letter to the Attorney General this night requesting that he look into Merchan’s activities and take legal action for any legal wrong. photograph. twitter.com/4SMbRc3Dgz
— J. D. Vance ( @JDVance1 ) May 29, 2024
The conduct of Juan Merchan, the New York test prosecutor and Democrat political donor who has established a kangaroo court for Donald Trump in Manhattan, appears to have quite a lot to say, he wrote in his article.
According to the Department of Justice, Area 242 “makes it illegal for someone acting in violation of the law to willfully endanger a man of a straight or opportunity protected by the Constitution or the laws of the United States.”
” It is , not , required that the offence be motivated by racial discrimination or by any other animus”, it adds.
Sen. J. D. Vance ( R- OH) speaks at a press event across the street from the Manhattan criminal court on May 13, 2024, in New York. ( Stefan Jeremiah/AP )
Vance points out a possible violation of this part by Merchan’s broad gag order against Trump in the test.
He is prohibited from publicly discussing witnesses ‘ involvement in the prosecution or research under the circumstances of the purchase. Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen are among them. Additionally, he is prohibited from discussing publicly any of the counsel in the case additional than Bragg, family members of either staff, or attorneys in the case if those claims were made with the intention to materially interfere with the prosecution’s or workers ‘ work in this legal case.
According to Vance, Merchan placed this purchase “on the guarded speech of a former president who is currently leading the second election’s political polling.”
As of Wednesday, Trump is already ahead of President Joe Biden by 46.4 percent or 47.5 percent on the RealClearPolling regular.
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A Republican presidential candidate has been made useless to question the reliability of the testimony testifying against him, the desires of the lawyers prosecuting him, or the fairness of the seemingly conflicted determine punishing him, he added.
According to Vance, “would get disfavored in the best of circumstances” and cited late Supreme Court Justice William Brennan Jr. and another progressive judges’ earlier statements that joke orders had been denied.
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The legislator argued that Merchan has “done his best” to even “deprive” Trump of an impartial judge and that the prosecutor has been” blatant” regarding the “admission and rejection of information”. According to Vance:
Merchan has not been willing to revoke President Trump’s First Amendment rights entirely, either. President Trump has a right to a fair test by an impartial jury as a legal plaintiff, and Merchan has made his best effort to spare him both. Merchan refused to ignore potential jury without showing any visible discrimination during jury choice. One had scoffed on social media that” Republicans…]were ] projected to pick up 70 seats in prison” .… Another posted a video on social media showing her participation in an anti- Trump street demonstration… But Merchan was willing to impanel them anyway, forcing President Trump’s attorneys to burn critical peremptory strikes…
When it comes to the entrance and rejection of facts, Merchan has been just as brazen. He has veered off at every chance to let the trial to present whatever data it wants, such as allowing a prosecution witness to give a lengthy account of an alleged sexual incident without any relevance to the actual allegations… but he has also used force against defense evidence at every chance.
Vance pointed to” a possible crime under Part 241″ of Title 18, adding that” there are many good coconspirators to consider”, including Merchan’s child, Loren Merchan, Bragg, and additional lawyers.
Loren Merchan is a “fundraiser for Democratic leaders and organizations,” according to the senator, who mentioned how, “partially by invoking the situation and smearing the plaintiff in request emails, she helped her clients boost$ 93 million from donors during Trump’s test in New York.”
He added that Merchan has been requested by Bragg and his attorneys, Matthew Colangelo and Christopher Conroy, to “prive Trump of his First Amendment rights” on numerous occasions.
By June 28 Vance requested a response from Garland regarding whether or not he would launch an investigation. The senator asks that he issue a document-retention request if he does n’t want to, so that a future administration can start the case.
