NY Judge Nailed With Legal Broadside After Trump Ally Strikes Back – ‘Clear Judicial Bias’
Charlie Kirk Staff
11/10/2023

New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik has filed an ethics complaint against Judge Arthur Engoron, the New York judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s fraud case brought by Attorney General Letitia James.
In her letter “clear judicial bias” against the former president and broke “several rules” in the judicial conduct code of New York State.
“Simply put, Judge Engoron has displayed a clear judicial bias against the defendant throughout the case, breaking several rules in the New York Code of Judicial Conduct.
“Last year, Judge Engoron told President Trump’s attorney that the former president is ‘just a bad guy’ who Democrat New York Attorney General Letitia James ‘should go after as the chief law enforcement officer of the state,’” she said in the complaint.
“At the start of the trial, Judge Engoron infamously smiled and posed for the cameras. After the defendant won an appellate ruling against Judge Engoron on the appropriate statute of limitations in this case, the judge simply ignored the ruling,” she said.
“Judge Engoron entered summary judgment against the defendant before the trial even began, without witnesses, other evidence, and cross-examination. This, despite the fact there’s disputed material evidence–and there’s no victim of the defendant’s supposed fraud. Indeed, as the trial evidence has made clear, the defendant paid back the sophisticated Wall Street banks, on time, in full, with interest, as agreed.4 No insurance company paid a penny. And these banks and insurance companies, supposedly defrauded, continue to do business with the defendant.
Yet Judge Engoron decreed before trial the defendant somehow committed fraud. Now, the judge is holding a trial–with no jury–to determine how much of Tish James’ requested $250 million in damages–with no victims–he will extract from the defendant. How does this not violate the defendant’s Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial?” the representative said.
“And Judge Engoron has made it crystal clear he doesn’t care what the defendant or his attorneys have to say. Indeed, Judge Engoron illegally gagged them. Judge Engoron told the defendant: ‘We are not here to listen to what you have to say.’ He told the defendant’s counsel: ‘I am not here to hear what he has to say, now sit down!’ And Judge Engoron even threatened the defendant’s counsel if he filed a routine motion for a directed verdict: ‘You better not, Chris!’” she said.
The representative went on to list a series of violations she believes the judge and his staff have made, including partisan donations to Democrat groups.
“This case is so much bigger than President Donald J. Trump. If Judge Engoron can railroad a billionaire New York businessman, a former President of the United States, and the leading presidential candidate, just imagine what he could do to all New Yorkers. Judge Engoron’s lawlessness sends an ominous and illegal warning to New York business owners: If New York judges don’t like your politics, they will destroy your business, the livelihood of your employees, and you personally. This Commission cannot let this continue,” she said.