The federal judge who sentenced Roger Stone to 3 1/3 years in prison rejected a request from the longtime political operative’s defense team that she step down over their concern that she is unable to be impartial in the case.

Stone’s legal team filed a motion in US District Court in Washington, DC, last Friday urging Judge Amy Berman Jackson to withdraw because of comments she made in court about how the jurors “served with integrity” during Thursday’s sentencing.

Stone’s lawyers are seeking a new trial, arguing a juror “misled the Court regarding her ability to be unbiased and fair.”

Jackson, who has yet to rule on whether Stone should get a new trial, shot down their argument for recusal in a scathing six-page order, saying it was just an attempt to introduce the words “biased” and “judge” in the public record.

“At bottom, given the absence of any factual or legal support for the motion for disqualification, the pleading appears to be nothing more than an attempt to use the Court’s docket to disseminate a statement for public consumption that has the words ‘judge’ and ‘biased’ in it,” Jackson wrote in the order, issued late Sunday.

Jackson, an appointee of President Barack Obama, sentenced Stone, a longtime associate of President Trump, to three years and four months in prison after he was convicted last November of witness tampering and lying to Congress about the investigation into Russian meddling during the 2016 election.

She defended her remarks about the jurors and said they don’t rise to the level of forcing her to recuse herself.

“The Court’s very general comment that ‘jurors’ served with integrity — three words on the 88th page of the 96-page transcript of a two-and-a-half-hour hearing — did not purport to, and did not address” Stone’s request for a new trial.

A juror, Tomeka Hart, has come under scrutiny after critical comments she made about Stone before being selected for the jury.

Jackson has said Stone doesn’t have to report to prison until she rules on whether he should receive a new trial.