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This business of Donald J. Trump’s comments on a judge’s racial heritage is getting a little out of hand.<\/p>\n

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee remains in some seriously hot water over comments he made about a judge who’s presiding over litigation involving the defunct Trump University. U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel is an American-born jurist whose parents are Mexican immigrants.<\/p>\n

Trump railed against the judge, saying he’s “a Mexican” who has been “very unfair to me” because of Trump’s proposal to “build a wall” across the southern border with Mexico.<\/p>\n

Thus, Judge Curiel is disqualified, according to Trump.<\/p>\n

Then he told CBS News’s John Dickerson that he might want Muslims disqualified from hearing any cases involving Trump because of his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States.<\/p>\n

Now, get a load of this one.<\/p>\n

A Trump spokeswoman said female judges might have to be disqualified because of Trump’s statements denigrating women.<\/p>\n

Hmmm.\u00a0Let’s play this out.<\/p>\n

Who else might be unable to serve on the bench to litigate a case involving Trump?<\/p>\n

A judge with a physical disability<\/strong> is one. Trump once mocked a disabled New York Times reporter.<\/p>\n

A former prisoner of war<\/strong>. Trump once said that U.S. Sen. John McCain is a “war hero” only because he was shot down, captured and held captive for five-plus years. “I like people who weren’t captured, OK?” Trump said.<\/p>\n

A judge who’s been married only one time<\/strong>. Trump is on his third marriage and has boasted openly about the affairs he’s had with women other than those to whom he was married.<\/p>\n

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Is it reasonable to assume that in Trump’s mind the only people who could judge a case involving\u00a0him fairly and without bias are people who are just like him?<\/p>\n

If so, then the\u00a0pool of potential judges\u00a0appears to have\u00a0been narrowed considerably.<\/p>\n

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This business of Donald J. Trump’s comments on a judge’s racial heritage is getting a little out of hand. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee remains in some seriously hot water over comments he made about a judge who’s presiding over litigation involving the defunct Trump University. U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel is an American-born jurist … Continue reading Trump winnows the judicial field<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,14],"tags":[1424,6280,6286],"class_list":["post-15101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-gonzalo-curiel","tag-trump-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15101"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15105,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15101\/revisions\/15105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}