Clinton-appointed US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, 92, will oversee the Nicolas Maduro trial. He is the judge who blocked Trump’s pro-Gaza [Hamas] emergency deportations.
Hellerstein, a devoted Orthodox Jew, also blocked the same administration from expelling Venezuelans under the “Alien Enemies Act”, finding that the law had been applied illegally.
Hellerstein did not rule on individual Palestinian activist cases, but blocked the administration’s broader use of emergency deportation powers without due process.
However, he has rejected arguments that defendants should receive leniency based on religion or nationality.
Hellerstein said his religion doesn’t affect his rulings. He is known for impartial rulings.
Maduro faces an indictment in New York that includes charges described as “narco-terrorism trafficking, weapons possession, and cocaine supply”. He is being held at the MDC in Brooklyn, whose reputation has deteriorated to the point that federal judges have increasingly resisted sending detainees there.
According to Ynet, Maduro is expected to be held initially in solitary confinement before being transferred to a high-security wing, where he will await trial in what the site described as one of the most controversial cases in New York’s judicial history.
These “randomly assigned” judges almost always seem to be anti-Trump. And the chosen venue is usually saturated with brainwashed liberal masses.
When all the mistakes happen in the Democrats favor are they really mistakes?
Princess Bondi decided to have the trial in leftist NY. Come on folks, there was no reason to do that. She is a saboteur. Let’s not wait 2 years to figure out what she is.
The masses in NYC are certainly not ‘liberal’, as they just elected a Moslem Communist as their mayor. And there is something inherently fishy about this trial. Some things do not add up, especially why Trump brought Maduro to a known judicial hellhole with a jury pool tainted by a large percentage of deranged Communists. This makes no sense.
“US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, 92, will oversee…”
“US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, 92, will oversee…”
“US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, 92, will oversee…”
In more ways than one, the United States has a judge problem.
When Merrick Garland was in charge he was doing anything he wanted… anything ! even raid a President s home !…like he had a magic wand… In comparison Pam Bondi seems to have about as much power as a Walmart cashier. How else can one explain that an anti-Trump / pro-Maduro judge is in charge of the Maduro case ???… Read more »
This makes it easy for Bondi to fail without trying hard to do so.
I guess I do not understand why Trump had Maduro taken to NYC. Who gives a rip about some 5-year old indictment, dump him at Gitmo, try him by Military Tribunal and put him in an outdoor cage for the rest of his life. Why subject justice to some antediluvian Democrat ‘judge’?