https://www.politico.com/amp/story/2018/08/13/mueller-legitimate-court-ruling-774888
Judge Dabney Friedrich, who Trump appointed to the U.S. District Court of Washington D.C. last year,
is the fourth judge to quash efforts to upend Mueller's legitimacy and cancel his investigation. Judges overseeing the two trials of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort -- D.C. judge Amy Berman Jackson and Eastern District of Virginia Judge T.S. Ellis -- rejected Manafort's bid to invalidate Mueller.