Records also list two other small donations to progressive groups a day after the Biden donation — $10 donations on July 27, 2020 to the groups Stop Republicans and Progressive Turnout Project.
Neither a spokesperson for the state court system nor the judge’s personal chambers responded to requests for comment when asked whether he made the donations.
The third donation, $15 to Biden one day earlier, is the only other federal political donation attributed to a Juan Merchan of New York in the FEC’s database, which spans multiple decades. Those donations span a variety of groups of both parties, including groups affiliated with Trump. And other judges donated to Biden’s 2020 campaign in the same report where the Merchan donation appears.But it would mean Merchan has donated to the onetime — and potential future — political opponent of a defendant now facing a trial in his courtroom.
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