Jurors asked if they can be ‘unbiased’: Trump hush money trial live updates, latest news (USA Today)

USA Today, April 16, 2024 

Jurors asked if they can be ‘unbiased’: Trump hush money trial live updates, latest news 

In his pre-trial statement to the press Tuesday morning, Trump repeated his argument that Judge Juan Merchan should be removed from the case because his daughter works for Democratic politicians. Merchan has refused to withdraw, noting that the New York State Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics’ found Merchan’s impartiality couldn’t be reasonably questioned. The New York City Bar Association has described Trump’s accusation of bias as ‘baseless.’ Trump said legal scholars such as Jonathan Turley and Andrew McCarthy have called the prosecution a ‘disgrace.’ ‘It should have never happened,’ Trump said. ‘It should have been thrown out a long time ago.’