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Trump case assigned to judge who faced criticism over her ruling in his favor in Mar-a-Lago search

The historic federal criminal case against former President Donald Trump has been assigned to a judge he appointed who faced blistering criticism over her earlier pro-Trump handling of a search warrant in his case.

FILE - Republican Scott Fitzpatrick speaks to reporters after being sworn in as Missouri's new state auditor on Jan. 9, 2023, during a ceremony in the Jefferson City Capitol building. Two Republican statewide officials, including Fitzpatrick, argued over the cost of restoring abortion rights in Missouri during a Wednesday, June 7, trial that could determine whether a constitutional amendment to allow the procedure can move forward. (AP Photo/Summer Ballentine, File)

Judge weighs Missouri GOP dispute over estimated cost of allowing abortions

Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks at the commencement ceremony for Boston University School of Law, Sunday, May 21, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Justice Jackson reports flowers from Oprah, designer clothing as Thomas delays filing disclosure

FILE - People wait in line outside the Supreme Court in Washington to listen to oral arguments in a voting rights case on Feb. 27, 2013. A U.S. Supreme Court decision a decade ago that tossed out the heart of the Voting Rights Act continues to reverberate across the country. Republican-led states continue to pass voting restrictions that, in several cases, would have been subject to federal review had the court left the provision intact. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Supreme Court tossed out heart of Voting Rights Act a decade ago, prompting wave of new voting rules

FILE - A patient prepares to take the first of two combination pills, mifepristone, for a medication abortion during a visit to a clinic in Kansas City, Kan., on Oct. 12, 2022. Abortion providers sued Kansas on Tuesday, June 6, 2023, challenging a new law requiring them to tell patients that an abortion medication can be stopped but also existing restrictions that include a decades-old requirement that patients wait 24 hours to terminate their pregnancies. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Abortion providers sue Kansas over longstanding waiting period, new medication rule

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FILE - People with the Human Rights Campaign hold up "equality flags" during an event on Capitol Hill on July 26, 2017, in Washington, in support of transgender members of the military. The Human Rights Campaign declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. on Tuesday, June 6, 2023, and a released “a guidebook for action” summarizing what it calls discriminatory laws in each state, along with “know your rights” information and health and safety resources. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

LGBTQ+ Americans are under attack, Human Rights Campaign declares in state of emergency warning

FILE - The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, on Nov. 5, 2020. The Supreme Court on Thursday, Jun 15, 2023, has preserved the system that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings of Native children. The justices rejected a broad attack from Republican-led states and white families who argued that the system is based on race. The court left in place the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act, which was enacted to address concerns that Native children were being separated from their families and, too frequently, placed in non-Native homes (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

A man wants to trademark ‘Trump too small’ for T-shirts. Now the Supreme Court will hear the case.

Man convicted for 4th time of sending threats to officials, journalists

FILE - The Supreme Court is seen on April 21, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Supreme Court rules against union in labor dispute involving truck drivers and wet concrete

FILE - The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, on Nov. 5, 2020. The Supreme Court on Thursday, Jun 15, 2023, has preserved the system that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings of Native children. The justices rejected a broad attack from Republican-led states and white families who argued that the system is based on race. The court left in place the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act, which was enacted to address concerns that Native children were being separated from their families and, too frequently, placed in non-Native homes (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court revives claims that SuperValu, Safeway overcharged governments for generic drugs

FILE - Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is pictured, Feb. 1, 2023, during an interview in Oklahoma City. The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday, May 31, 2023 that two state laws banning abortion are unconstitutional, but the procedure remains illegal in the state in most cases. "Despite the court’s decisions today on SB 1603 and HB 4327, Oklahoma’s 1910 law prohibiting abortion remains in place," Drummond said in a statement. "Except for certain circumstances outlined in that statute, abortion is still unlawful in the state of Oklahoma.” (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, file)

Oklahoma high court strikes down 2 abortion bans; procedure remains illegal in most cases

FILE - A road bisects a wetland on June 20, 2019, near Kulm, N.D. The Supreme Court has made it harder for the federal government to police water pollution. The decision from the court on Thursday, May 25, 2023, strips protections from wetlands that are isolated from larger bodies of water. It’s the second ruling in as many years in which a conservative majority has narrowed the reach of environmental regulations. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Supreme Court sharply limits federal government’s ability to police pollution into certain wetlands

FILE - The Supreme Court is seen on April 21, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Supreme Court rules in favor of 94-year-old woman who got nothing when county took her condo

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts waves to the crowd after he received the Henry J. Friendly Medal during the American Law Institute's annual dinner in Washington, Tuesday, May 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Chief Justice Roberts says Supreme Court can do more on ethics, but offers no specifics

COVID emergency orders are among `greatest intrusions on civil liberties,’ Justice Gorsuch says

FILE - Attorney Eric Schnapper, right, gestures to Beatriz Gonzalez, second from right, the mother of 23-year-old Nohemi Gonzalez, a student killed in the Paris terrorist attacks, and stepfather Jose Hernandez, front row center, speak outside the Supreme Court, Feb. 21, 2023, in Washington. The Supreme Court on Thursday, May 18, sidestepped a case against Google that might have allowed more lawsuits against social media companies. The justices' decision returns to a lower court the case from the family of Nohemi Gonzalez. The family wants to sue Google for YouTube videos they said helped attract IS recruits and radicalize them. Google owns YouTube. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Supreme Court avoids ruling on law shielding internet companies from being sued for what users post

Trust in Supreme Court fell to lowest point in 50 years after abortion decision, poll shows

FILE - The U.S. Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 2, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File Photo)

Supreme Court backs California law for more space for pigs. Producers predict pricier pork, bacon

Unanimous Supreme Court gives transgender woman from Guatemala new chance to fight deportation

Supreme Court blocks Richard Glossip’s execution in Oklahoma

The U.S. Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 2, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Overhaul of Supreme Court ethics runs into GOP opposition

Supreme Court to decide important case on government power

SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Gender gap persists at arguments

FILE - Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Bottom row, from left, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan. Top row, from left, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court on ethics issues: Not broken, no fix needed

Chief Justice Roberts declines to testify at Senate’s Supreme Court ethics hearing

Supreme Court takes social media cases with echoes of Trump

Activist Nadine Seiler of Waldorf, Md., demonstrates in front of the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 20, 2023, as she laments the absence of people to protest the conservative majority on the high court. Justices are leaving women's access to an abortion pill untouched until at least Friday, while they consider whether to allow restrictions on mifepristone to take effect. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Supreme Court preserves access to abortion pill for now

High court temporarily blocks restrictions on abortion pill

Justice Thomas says he didn’t have to disclose luxury trips

High court: Trans girl can run girls track in West Virginia

NC governor signs executive order protecting abortion access

Abortion rights backers rally in anger over post-Roe future

Colorado moves to protect abortions in state law

New urgency to fix New York’s COVID-19 rent relief program

Christine Blasey Ford becomes emotional as she testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 in Washington. (Win McNamee/Pool Image via AP)

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