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struggle4progress

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Sat Jan 5, 2019, 12:10 AM Jan 2019

Corsi's request for specific judge denied

By Jake Gibson, Samuel Chamberlain | Fox News

A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Thursday denied a request by conservative author Jerome Corsi to assign himself to hear Corsi's lawsuit against Special Counsel Robert Mueller alleging illegal and unconstitutional surveillance.

Corsi's attorney, Larry Klayman, argued that U.S. District Judge Richard Leon should hear the case because of its relation to other cases that Leon had ruled on, involving allegations of illegal surveillance by the National Security Agency and other government entities.

"A related case is not whatever a plaintiff wishes it to be," Leon said in denying Klayman's request. The judge added that if he agreed to hear the case, it "would invite precisely the sort of judge shopping that this system is designed to avoid." ...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jerome-corsis-request-for-specific-judge-in-mueller-lawsuit-denied

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Corsi's request for specific judge denied (Original Post) struggle4progress Jan 2019 OP
Is there NO end to the privilege these already privileged people crave ? Haggis for Breakfast Jan 2019 #1
Please don't link to Fox News, find some other source for your story TeamPooka Jan 2019 #2
Corsi and Klayman are idiots Gothmog Jan 2019 #3
Kick rocks. oasis Jan 2019 #4

TeamPooka

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2. Please don't link to Fox News, find some other source for your story
Sat Jan 5, 2019, 12:20 AM
Jan 2019

Please don’t link to Fox News, find some other source for your story

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