Legal experts worry about Trump’s own commitment to an independent judiciary and his views on presidential powers.
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Tapper then cut him off and pressed, “So, no Mexican judge can ever be involved in a case that involves you?”
Donald Trump doubled down Friday on his suggestion that the judge presiding over lawsuits against Trump University might be biased because of his Mexican heritage – even as detractors said the remarks were racist and unsafe. -Mexican border, Trump said. Trump has made insulting comments about veterans, so maybe judges who served in the military couldn’t be trusted, either.
Trump wants to roll back the clock on women’s rights, so this line of argument suggests women judges would be out, too.
The American Bar Association’s code of judicial conduct says a judge must disqualify himself if he has made public statements outside of court that appear to commit the judge to rule in a particular way.
Trump in recent days has escalated his attacks against U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who last week ordered parts of internal documents, including “playbooks” regarding running the enterprise, to be released as part of a lawsuit against Trump University.
After attacking her record last week, Trump on Thursday moderated his tone and said he would like her endorsement.
Donald Trump did his part yesterday to further America’s purity-politics renaissance, when he declared that a Mexican-American judge hearing a legal case against him couldn’t be unbiased because Trump has been critical of Mexican immigrants.
“Donald Trump’s unprecedented-and utterly absurd-attacks against the federal judge presiding over two class-action suits over Trump University took the inevitable (bigoted) turn towards the logically surreal Thursday”.
Seasoned CNN anchor Jake Tapper learned this the hard way on Saturday when he attempted to question the Republican about his potentially racist criticisms of a federal judge.
US federal judge Gonzalo Curiel is handling two lawsuits against the for-profit Trump University.
Gingrich answered was: “I think that it was a mistake”.
“I have had frightful rulings, I have been treated unfairly by this judge”, said Friday. But the president has to be clear that the law is the law and that he enforces the law. “And Hillary Clinton will fight for all Americans”.
U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) criticized the remarks just a day after he officially endorsed Trump as his party’s nominee.
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“It might not be unreasonable for a defendant in Trump’s position to wonder who Curiel favors in the presidential election”, Gonzales wrote.
