No, I'm not an attorney and didn't even sleep at a Holiday Inn last night...

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

20. Most things are subject to appeal

With federal cases, a venue change can happen when someone is too well-known in a particular, limited area. Where can this idiot go that he's not well-known? He was POTUS, for crying out loud. Every American knows who he is.

If you do appeal something so silly, he would still need to establish a good case to have it heard, never mind ruled upon in his favor. I don't think this idiot doing the legal equivalent of whining that the judge and jury don't like him will fly with any appeals court.

Trial judges tend to have pretty wide latitude to make the call for a venue change, so it would take something quite egregious for an appeals court to rule that a judge's decision not to change venues was faulty. We're talking a judge who makes extremely prejudicial remarks about the defendant, serious errors in her rulings that indicate prejudice or putting her finger on the scale--things like that.

It's the rare federal judge who's that stupid. So the idiot could appeal all he wanted, but I have no doubt that an appellate court would smack him down, and hard.

I think you're worrying for nothing.