Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said Saturday that the Minnesota judge overseeing the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was “way off track” in saying that remarks Waters made to demonstrators before the verdict was handed down could help the defense win an appeal. “I’ve talked with a lot of legal scholars and lawyers. He was way off track,” Waters said during an appearance on CNN “He knows that there was no interference with jurors,” she added later. “And he knows that this is not the cause of an appeal. Most of the time you have a case like this, they’re going to appeal it anyways. To say that I’m going to cause an appeal really is not credible.” A spokesman for the Hennepin County court did not respond to a request for comment. Waters traveled to Brooklyn Center, a Minneapolis suburb, before jurors decided to convict Chauvin on …