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Before we get into the specifics of exactly who is overseeing the federal trials of former president Donald J. Trump.

Can I just start out by acknowledging that America has always picked judges in a pretty bizarre way?

Yeah, so in the old days, there was literally a wheel and you would spin the wheel and it would land on like a certain judge.

And that would be the judge to hear the case.

Mark Joseph Stern is our resident expert on the courts here at Slate.

He says, courts ditch the whole wheel thing a while back.

I think different courts use different procedures and it's generally electronic.

But still, the randomness remains.

The goal is noble.

Random assignments make it harder for the prosecution or defense to curry favor with the person who controls their feet.

But also.

I think you should also take a step back and think about what that means for regular criminal defendants in this system.

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