A former President Barack Obama judge has reportedly been assigned to President Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal.
U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles in the Southern District of Florida was nominated by Obama in February 2014, and became the first openly gay Black federal judge.
Gayles was also assigned a Trump $500 million lawsuit against embattled former attorney Michael Cohen in 2023, but Trump was forced to temporarily pause that case due to court-date conflicts in the Democrat prosecutor-led cases he faced before the 2024 presidential election.
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