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[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

And why are these bureaucrats obsessed with a perception of fairness for Donald Trump

Because they want to make sure that their judgements stick. Trump has a lot of political power, and enough money to get a legal team that can find every single undotted i and uncrossed t, and use that to appeal anything. (Or, he would, if he would actually pay his attorneys, instead of stiffing them on legal bills. So what he actually has is incompetent hacks.) So a smart judge makes sure that they're not doing anything that could be a reversible error.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Because they want to make sure that their judgements stick.

These repeated failures by the judge to enforce the rules within the court will not fortify the result of the decision on appeal.

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

The thing is, if they hit Trump with a contempt of court order, and then jail him, that can be used to claim that the judge was biased against him, unless that kind of punishment is typical for violating gag orders repeatedly. So you want to avoid that, since that makes it easier to claim that the judges instructions and handling of the case was also biased.

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