Politics NewsTaco June 7, 2016

Could Trump get judge off the case?

*The question posed is: “Can the Trump defendants force the recusal of this federal judge based on bias, solely because he’s Hispanic? Legally, the answer is: probably not, not for that reason alone.” But, Joe Arpaio got away with a similar thing not too long ago. This article baited my curiosity.  VL

Cnn.svgBy Danny Cevallos, CNN (6.5 minute read)

In the past few days, Donald Trump has doubled down on his position that the federal judge assigned to one of the Trump University lawsuits is biased because of his Mexican heritage. Trump continues to believe the judge should recuse himself from the case, offering as support such statements as “he’s a Mexican. We’re building a wall between here and Mexico.”

If the Trump defendants in this case thought the judge was biased from the beginning, why didn’t they file a recusal motion at the beginning of this case? Instead, the defendants in this case appear to have raised no issues about a prejudiced judge until after they were dissatisfied with something he’d done.
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Before we even examine the law, if a defendant only seeks to recuse a judge after some adverse rulings, that doesn’t sound like there’s really a deep-rooted personal animus. It sounds like the litigant doesn’t like the ruling, and may be trying to shop around . . . READ MORE

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