U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson issued an order on Friday granting President-elect Donald Trump’s request for the judge’s recusal from a defamation case filed by the exonerated “Central Park Five” against him.
This followed a motion filed by Trump’s lawyers on Nov. 14, seeking Baylson’s recusal over concerns that his personal ties to the plaintiffs’ lead attorney could undermine the impartiality of the proceedings.
Baylson, a senior judge of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, said he would recuse himself from the case and asked the chief judge to reassign it to another judge. The plaintiffs did not oppose the motion to recuse….