Even John Yoo Thinks Trump's Attacks On Trump U Judge Are 'Disturbing'
Donald Trump's smear campaign against a federal judge has so troubled the legal community that even the conservative lawyer who authored the George W. Bush administration's so-called "torture memos" said the presumptive GOP nominee's behavior is "disturbing."
“The only two other presidents I can think of who were so hostile to judges on an individual level and to the judiciary as a whole would be Thomas Jefferson and Franklin Roosevelt,” John Yoo, who served in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel during the George W. Bush administration, told the New York Times. He added that those two presidents only challenged the judicial branch in a broad sense.
“They weren’t doing it because they had cases before those judges as individuals,” Yoo said.
Trump, meanwhile, has said that U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel -- the judge president over two lawsuits against his Trump University -- is a "Mexican" whose decisions in the case "has to do with I'm very, very strong on the border."
(Curiel was born in the United States.)
“Presidents Jefferson and Roosevelt had legitimate separation-of-powers fights between the presidency and the judiciary," Yoo said. "Trump is lashing out because he has a lawsuit in a private capacity, which is much more disturbing.”
Other conservative scholars interviewed by the Times said they were alarmed by Trump's anti-Curiel tirades, as well as his attitude toward the judiciary branch more generally.
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When you've lost John Yoo, you're toast.
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