Merchan, a former prosecutor, has more than 16 years on the bench, having been appointed a judge in Bronx family court back in 2006.
Merchan, who has been overseeing Trump's hush money case, declined to recuse himself from the case last August after Trump's lawyers requested he do so amid allegations of bias.
Merchan also oversaw the criminal tax fraud case against the Trump Organization, in which a jury found two companies from the organization guilty on 17 counts. Merchan also sentenced the Trump Organization's former CFO Allen Weisselberg to five months in jail and five years of probation for tax fraud in a separate case. In addition, Merchan is presiding over a case involving former Trump adviser Steve Bannon over allegations that Bannon defrauded donors to a fundraiser to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Bannon is set to face trial in May.
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