During his appearance on Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow” with former Trump economist Larry Kudlow, Mark Levin, the radio talk show host and Fox News host, made some startling revelations about the judge who oversaw former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial. The discussion took place while the two hosts were talking about Hunter Biden’s recent conviction on gun charges in a federal court. Levin and Kudlow expressed their belief that the trial, which was presided over by U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika, appointed by Trump, was conducted in a more impartial manner.
“I hear everything you say, but you talked about the judge before; she was a Trump-appointed judge. She was the one who broke up this insane plea deal, which would have let Hunter Biden off of any of this stuff,” Kudlow said. “Comparing this judge, Trump appointed, to a sham judge in New York with the [Manhattan District Attorney Alvin] Bragg trial is like day and night, and I think you are the lawyer, not me. It shows you can have a good courtroom, you can have a good judge, you can have somebody that abides by the law. What do you think?”
“The issue is whether the judge is ideological or not,” Levin began.”In the Reagan Administration, making recommendations for judges when it comes to the trial of federal judges — this is never explained when a president has to make a deal with Democrat senators from a particular state.”
Levin proceeded to highlight that, within the Senate, where federal judge nominees undergo approval or rejection, a customary practice exists wherein senators from the state where the judge’s caseload will be situated must concur with the president’s selection. In the instance of Noreika, whose caseload is in Delaware, the consent of the state’s two Democratic senators was necessary.
“People say this is a Trump-appointed judge. Maybe it was a Trump-appointed judge, [but] two Democrat senators put holds on other district court judges that are up unless the president cuts a deal, so we did during the Reagan administration,” Levin continued. “In New York, we would want three of our guys but had to agree to one of their guys, and their guy was a Reagan-appointed judge. It doesn’t happen at the appellate level or the Supreme Court level. Trump appointed a judge; she’s playing by the book. But this is a serious federal judge running a trial, not interrupting witnesses, not playing games. She wants the testimony to get out, witnesses to events that took place. This was played by the book.”
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