“I have a judge who is a hater of Donald Trump”.
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“If this continues, I would hope that some prominent federal judges would set Mr. Trump straight on what’s appropriate and what’s not in our democracy”, Burbank said.
“Political discourse is always somewhat cartoonish in a way, and hyperbolic, but there are limits, and I can’t think of any serious presidential candidate who has stretched the limits to the degree which Trump has”, he said.
“This is how authoritarianism starts, with a president who does not respect the judiciary”, Mr.
That is undoubtedly because court precedents are unanimous in holding that race, ethnicity, gender, religion and sexual orientation are not themselves grounds for disqualifying a judge.
She also made a crack about Trump’s “German heritage”, at a time when Democrats, journalists, entertainers, and protesters explicitly call Trump a Nazi.
Trump gave a clue why that won’t happen at the raucous press conference over his donations to veterans when he insulted two Latino-surnamed reporters, CNN’s Jim Acosta and ABC’s Tom Llamas. Trump has since backed off on that. “He’s following the job, he’s following the letter of the law, he has absolutely no agenda against Trump”, he said.
The presumptive GOP presidential nominee says Curiel’s Mexican heritage has spawned the judge’s “tremendous hostility” to Trump’s plan to build a wall along the Mexican border.
Incredulously Trump argues that the Indiana-born judge is biased against him because “he’s a Mexican”.
Donald Trump in an interview with the Wall Street Journal Thursday, said the judge in the “Trump University” lawsuit – where a group of former students say the school duped them out of a great deal of money – has an “absolute conflict” because he is Hispanic. He was born in Indiana. His co-host John Heilemann maintains that Trumps’ comments engage in “racial politics” and are created to “stir up racial animus”. Prominent lawyers and legal scholars have spoken out against Trump’s comments.
Trump’s lawyers, from the prestigious O’Melveny & Myers firm, however, have not done that. The Republican candidate supports a ban on foreign Muslims entering the United States, for example, so any American Muslim on the federal bench would, by Trump’s latest reasoning, have a “conflict of interest”.
McConnell also acknowledged he is concerned that Trump could alienate Latino voters – tipping Latinos into Democrats’ camp and causing the Republican Party a similar problem to the African-American exodus to Democrats after the party’s early-1960s standard-bearer, Barry Goldwater, opposed the Civil Rights Act. U.S. District Judge Paul Borman, who is Jewish, turned down a request to withdraw from a case of a Palestinian immigrant accused of lying about her role in a fatal terrorist attack.
“He’s proud of his heritage, OK?”
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He later did step aside from the case, after discovering his family had an investment in the Jerusalem supermarket the woman helped bomb in 1969.
