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by unprepare 3644 days ago
If the judge is acting in a manner unfit of a US judge, why dont trumps lawyers file for a recusal of the judge, or any other various legal methods of assigning a different judge to the case?

Can you show any evidence that the judge has acted in a manner unfit of his judicial duty? Or that the case lead to outcomes that were harsher than the norm for such a decision?
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jack-r-abbit 3644 days ago
Maybe they did or will do that. I'm not privy to any of the inner workings of this case. If you are then maybe you could share those details. I simple said it is possible he is biased and suggesting so is not racist.
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dragonwriter 3644 days ago
Suggesting that he is biased based on nothing other than his race is racist. Presenting actual evidence of bias and identity-based motivation might not be racist, even though it might attribute bias to race, but that is a different story.

Trump has directly said that the judge must be biased, because of his ethnic heritage and the supposed "fact" (which isn't actually a fact, but anyway) that Trump is "building a wall" -- that is, the claim actually being made by Trump is that it is impossible for any person of Mexican heritage to not be biased against Trump because of Trump's specific policy stances.

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unprepare 3644 days ago
No, saying he is incapable of being an impartial judge because he is of mexican descent is racist. full stop.

So either he is fit to be a judge and is capable of being impartial or he isnt.

by the way Trumps attorney has said publicly that they will not seek to have the judge removed from the case. Actions speak louder than words.

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jack-r-abbit 3644 days ago
So.... is it racist for people to say white judges are being harsher on non-white defendants? Because in that scenario, it is usually the white judges that are viewed as being a problem. I don't see any difference here. Full stop.
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dragonwriter 3644 days ago
> So.... is it racist for people to say white judges are being harsher on non-white defendants?

That depends on the basis of the claim. If its based on presumptions about group identity and how that will produce actions, then yes. If it is based on systematic gathering of data on judicial decisions, factual circumstances which cover the expected non-race inputs to those decisions, and information of about defendants' and judges' races, then, no.

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