In the case that the judge does refuse and his bias is so blatant and over the top in some way (say you have a picture of him in KKK robes shaking
the local klan leader's hand) and your client's skin color is remotely not white, you can also file a petition to a higher court for a «Writ of Prohibition».
His allies are in a war with the Haitians and
a local klan expy isn't exactly fond of him either.
As far as they know, it could be
local klan who is protesting and no one in the church.