The case will then be handed over to an Obama-appointed judge who donated $1,000 to former President Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. U.S. District Magistrate Judge Deborah A. Robinson, the preliminary judge, has overseen cases involving former Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry and NBA player Allen Iverson, according to Tickle the Wire, a law news website. Libby was sentenced to two and a half years in prison but had his sentence commuted by President George W. Bush. After the preliminary phase, the case will be handed over to U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who joined the court in 2011 after being appointed by former President Barack Obama. As of early October, he was ordered to be released pending a new sentencing hearing, The Associated Press reported.

Source: Fox News October 30, 2017 16:23 UTC