The judge overseeing Perkins Coie’s lawsuit responding to President Donald Trump’s executive order should be disqualified from the case, lawyers for the administration said.
DC federal Judge Beryl Howell’s comments calling Trump an authoritarian and about the Robert Mueller investigation at a recent hearing should disqualify her, Chad Mizelle, acting associate attorney general, and Richard Lawson, a deputy US associate attorney general, argued in a brief Friday.
“This court has repeatedly demonstrated partiality against and animus towards the president,” Lawson said. “Reasonable observers may well view this court as insufficiently impartial.”
Lawson requested that the case be transferred to a ...
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