REAL CLEAR POLITICS
Four Thoughts on Trump’s “Mexican” Judge Remarks
by Charles Lipson
June 8, 2016

…It is perfectly legitimate to criticize a judge for bias, based on his prior rulings, public statements, or membership in civic organizations, particularly those that openly oppose your own legal strategy. Fortunately, we live in a government of laws and there is a well-established response to such alleged bias. Ask for the judge’s recusal. If the judge refuses, appeal the decision.  If you lose, complain if you want, but do it based on the judge’s views and actions, not the boxes he checks on a census form…One hears the same about whites discussing social and political issues affecting the problems of our urban cores, as if the social pathologies are too obscure to understand or somehow impolite for outsiders to notice. The same arguments have been used to exclude men from discussing issues of sex discrimination and assaults against women. READ MORE