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Let’s narrow down which judges wouldn’t be demographically biased against Donald Trump
By Philip Bump June 5 at 1:45 PM
Donald Trump has insisted over the past two weeks that the judge overseeing the Trump University fraud case cannot act impartially because he is "Mexican" (later: "of Mexican heritage"
. That insistence has been received poorly, including by formerly stalwart Trump allies such as Newt Gingrich.
On Sunday morning, Trump expanded his line of thinking outward. During an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation," Trump was asked whether a Muslim judge would similarly be incapable of treating him fairly.
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Let's set aside the fact that Article VI of the Constitution prohibits the sort of religious test that Trump would apparently like to apply to those who sit in judgment of him. And let us also set aside that, in 1998, lawyers who questioned the fitness of a judge based on his ethnicity were reprimanded severely, to the point that they were mandated to inform future judges in the district of their botched challenge.
Let us instead try to isolate which judges Donald Trump would like to bar from overseeing any future legal disputes involving his get-others-rich-quick schemes. We already know that Trump could reject anyone who is Muslim, "Mexican" or "of Mexican heritage." (Those are in quotes because "Mexican," in this instance, doesn't actually mean Mexican: The judge in the Trump University case is from Indiana.)
. That insistence has been received poorly, including by formerly stalwart Trump allies such as Newt Gingrich.
On Sunday morning, Trump expanded his line of thinking outward. During an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation," Trump was asked whether a Muslim judge would similarly be incapable of treating him fairly.
<snip>
Let's set aside the fact that Article VI of the Constitution prohibits the sort of religious test that Trump would apparently like to apply to those who sit in judgment of him. And let us also set aside that, in 1998, lawyers who questioned the fitness of a judge based on his ethnicity were reprimanded severely, to the point that they were mandated to inform future judges in the district of their botched challenge.
Let us instead try to isolate which judges Donald Trump would like to bar from overseeing any future legal disputes involving his get-others-rich-quick schemes. We already know that Trump could reject anyone who is Muslim, "Mexican" or "of Mexican heritage." (Those are in quotes because "Mexican," in this instance, doesn't actually mean Mexican: The judge in the Trump University case is from Indiana.)
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Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/06/05/lets-narrow-down-which-judges-wouldnt-be-demographically-biased-against-donald-trump/
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