Excerpt: Trump’s attacks on Curiel were a step too far for some Republican leaders. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who endorsed the real estate mogul this week, said it was “reasoning I don’t relate to.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said he “couldn’t disagree more with the statement.” Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus said he “wouldn’t invoke race into any sort of attack or commentary.” Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called Trump’s remarks “completely unacceptable.” All four are still committed to supporting Trump in November.
Donald Trump Doesn't Want a Muslim Judge Either
Later, when asked if he believed a Muslim judge would treat him unfairly because of another controversial proposal to temporarily bar Muslims from entering the U.S., Trump replied: "It's possible, yes. Yeah. That would be possible, absolutely."
"Isn't there sort of a tradition though in America that we don't judge people by who their parents were and where they came from?" Dickerson asked. "I'm not talking about tradition," Trump replied. "I'm talking about 
common sense, okay? He's somebody, he's proud of his heritage."
Eventually, Chin dismissed Klayman’s client’s case....Not long after, the judge got a letter from Klayman and his co-counsel, Paul Orfanedes, asking a few “questions” about the judge’s Asian American background....In a written response, Chin...lowered the boom. Klayman and Orfanedes were required to withdraw as counsel from the case and would not be permitted to appear in Chin’s court on any matter ever again. They would be required to show his opinion to any other judge in the district in any future case. The court clerk would also report the sanctions to every court where they held bar membership.
....The Second Circuit briskly affirmed Chin’s order. “Courts have repeatedly held that matters such as race or ethnicity are improper bases for challenging a judge's impartiality,” wrote the chief judge, Ralph Winter, a Reagan appointee.
In public, Trump can rant about anything he wants. But in court, if his lawyers so much as mention Curiel's Mexican heritage in a recusal motion they risk nuclear sanctions. Even for Trump, they aren't willing to do that.
Still, there are always those "other things." My own guess is that this is a blustery Trumpian fiction, just like all the evidence of Barack Obama's Kenyan birth that Trump insisted his private investigators had been digging up back in 2011. We'll see.
Bottom line: Donald Trump apparently believes that the only judge qualified to try his case is a white Christian. I guess this is the new, more presidential Trump that his backers keep insisting will show up any day now for the general election.
Later, when asked if he believed a Muslim judge would treat him unfairly because of another controversial proposal to temporarily bar Muslims from entering the U.S., Trump replied: "It's possible, yes. Yeah. That would be possible, absolutely.""Isn't there sort of a tradition though in America that we don't judge people by who their parents were and where they came from?" Dickerson asked. "I'm not talking about tradition," Trump replied. "I'm talking about
Eventually, Chin dismissed Klayman’s client’s case....Not long after, the judge got a letter from Klayman and his co-counsel, Paul Orfanedes, asking a few “questions” about the judge’s Asian American background....In a written response, Chin...lowered the boom. Klayman and Orfanedes were required to withdraw as counsel from the case and would not be permitted to appear in Chin’s court on any matter ever again. They would be required to show his opinion to any other judge in the district in any future case. The court clerk would also report the sanctions to every court where they held bar membership.....The Second Circuit briskly affirmed Chin’s order. “Courts have repeatedly held that matters such as race or ethnicity are improper bases for challenging a judge's impartiality,” wrote the chief judge, Ralph Winter, a Reagan appointee.
In public, Trump can rant about anything he wants. But in court, if his lawyers so much as mention Curiel's Mexican heritage in a recusal motion they risk nuclear sanctions. Even for Trump, they aren't willing to do that.
Still, there are always those "other things." My own guess is that this is a blustery Trumpian fiction, just like all the evidence of Barack Obama's Kenyan birth that Trump insisted his private investigators had been digging up back in 2011. We'll see.
Bottom line: Donald Trump apparently believes that the only judge qualified to try his case is a white Christian. I guess this is the new, more presidential Trump that his backers keep insisting will show up any day now for the general election.
Trump Says Muslim Judges Also Might Not Be Fair To Him
Trump previously said a U.S. District Court judge treated him in a “hostile manner” due to the judge’s Mexican heritage.
Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump broadened his objections to the judiciary on Sunday, saying in an interview it was “absolutely” possible that he’d be treated unfairly by a Muslim judge.
During an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Trump continued his overtly racist tirade against U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who unsealed documents this week revealing predatory practices by salespeople at the now-defunct Trump University.
Trump claimed the judge, who was born in Indiana, treated him in a “hostile manner” due to the judge’s Mexican heritage.
“I think it has a lot to do with it. First of all, I’ve had terrible rulings forever,” Trump said. “This is a case I should’ve won on summary judgment.”
“He is a member of a club or society, very strongly pro-Mexican, which is all fine,” he added, referencing Curiel’s membership in La Raza Lawyers of California. “But I say he’s got bias. I want to build a wall. I’m going to build a wall.”
Asked if he believed that he would be treated unfairly by a Muslim judge because of his call to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, Trump said, “It’s possible.”
“It’s possible, yes,” he said. “That would be possible, absolutely.”
Trump’s attacks on Curiel were a step too far for some Republican leaders. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who endorsed the real estate mogul this week, said it was “reasoning I don’t relate to.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said he “couldn’t disagree more with the statement.” Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus said he “wouldn’t invoke race into any sort of attack or commentary.” Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called Trump’s remarks “completely unacceptable.”
All four are still committed to supporting Trump in November.
Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.
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