Simpson Won’t DQ Himself From Case

Item: Simpson refuses to disqualify himself from the Brannon case /Tom Hasslinger, Coeur d’Alene Press

More Info: First District Judge Benjamin Simpson isn’t going anywhere. Simpson ruled Friday evening that he would remain as the judge presiding over the election challenge lawsuit, saying that an unfavorable ruling against the Plaintiff Jim Brannon isn’t enough to remove a judge from the bench. “Objections to the court’s power to set the bond amount are not supported in the law or by the facts of the case,” Simpson wrote in his ruling. Brannon, Simpson concludes in his ruling, “has failed to carry his burden of proof with his respect to bias or prejudice.”

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