Donald Trump launched yet another attack against the daughter of New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the trial regarding the former president’s alleged hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels,” Rolling Stone reports. “The post included photos of Merchan’s daughter… Trump has attacked the judge’s daughter at least three other times in the last week.”

Judges refraining from engaging in partisan politics is imperative. But what should judges do, if anything, when their families become the ire of a litigant? Federal Judge Reggie Walton recently spoke up. https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/29/politics/federal-judge-donald-trump-rebuke/index.html. There was an inordinate amount of media coverage to his remarks but what I strongly suspect is there are thousands of judges who totally agree with him. Our families….and our children…..are off limits.