"But why antagonize the judge ... ?" over his ethnicity, Trump replied, "Because I don't care."
Nothing prohibits a plaintiff from accusing a judge of bias, and lawyers can file a motion asking for a case to be reassigned. Trump should know, since according to USA Today, he's been in 3,500 legal actions over the last 30 years. But no such motion has been filed.
As president, Trump may nominate three or four Supreme Court justices, effectively casting the Supreme Court in his own image. In this light, the allegation of bias based on ethnicity is a worrisome affront to judicial independence. By Trump's (il)logic, a Latino justice would have to recuse himself on any case involving immgration. And a woman would have to do the same for a case involving abortion.
Trump's sliming of Curiel is part of a well-orchestrated series of put-downs that began with his infamous taco bowl tweet on Cinco de Mayo and continued with his shaming of New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez. It continued at the raucous press conference over his donations to veterans, where Trump insulted two Latino-surnamed reporters, CNN's Jim Acosta and ABC's Tom Llamas. Trump once had his goons throw Univision anchor Jorge Ramos out of a press conference (that seems so long ago!), but has now restricted himself to mocking Acosta's looks and calling Llamas a "sleaze."
When Acosta brought up Curiel and asked, "But why antagonize the judge ... ?" over his ethnicity, Trump replied, "Because I don't care."
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http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/282295-trump-takes-his-anti-latino-crusade-to-new-lows
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