With less than a week to go before the start of his trial in New York on falsifying records, former President Donald Trump has sued Juan Merchan, the judge presiding over the case. By contrast, he has not attacked Judge Scott McAfee, a white Republican man overseeing his trial in Fulton County, Georgia, or Judge Aileen Cannon, whom he appointed to the bench and who is assigned his case related to sensitive government documents he took from the White House. In Trump’s best-case scenario—where he successfully shoots the moon—he is able to have judges he deems unfriendly thrown off the cases, or at the very least he is able to build a case to have convictions thrown out on appeal on grounds of bias.