Is a federal magistrate judge barred from presiding over a civil case?

Plaintiff also requests that the court allow him to file criminal charges against the defendants and to remove the defendant judge from presiding over his other civil case. ECF No. 1 at 8. The court is unable to provide plaintiff with such relief. Whether to prosecute and what charges to file are decisions that generally rest in the prosecutor's discretion, not the court's and not plaintiff's. United States v. Batchelder, 442 U.S. 114, 124 (1979). Moreover, if plaintiff wishes to have the federal magistrate judge removed from the other civil case he is litigating, he may file a motion for recusal in that case. This court's jurisdiction does not extend to the other case plaintiff is litigating.