The Trump administration lost its bid to remove the judge assigned to a lawsuit by legal groups challenging its decision to end funding for lawyers of unaccompanied immigrant children.
Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín of the US District Court for the Northern District of California denied the government’s motion for recusal and reassignment, despite having worked about seven years ago as a managing attorney for the lead plaintiff in the case. She acknowledged her past work for Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto, but said she wasn’t required to recuse because she wasn’t involved in the specific litigation at issue before ...
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