Justice Juan M. Merchan, an even-keeled jurist, has been in the president-elect’s cross-hairs for nearly two years.

Judge Juan Merchan spent seven minutes during Friday’s sentencing hearing bemoaning that President-elect Donald Trump’s ...

Claims accusing Merchan of bias often revolved around his daughter’s work and his political donations, with figures on Fox arguing that the judge couldn’t be impartial in the face of those facts.

Merchan was always going to uphold the 34 felony charges. He and his daughter are both corrupt." Richard Painter, attorney and former chief White House ethics lawyer (2005-2007), via X ...