6/4/16

Trump Defends Against Partisanship in Federal Judiciary

A Federal Judge of Mexican ancestry named Curiel is presiding over the Trump University case, and Donald Trump has commented that the Judge has an ethnic bias against him. Regardless of that, a President or Presidential right has an implicit right to criticize the judiciary-the third branch of government, as a peer. F.D.R. sought to drastically increase the size of the Supreme Court in order to support his pet policies for making over the entire government, and though he failed in that effort, Presidents and Congress has occasionally directly jostled with each other.

Donald Trump is not a wimpy Pee-wee Herman sized Presidential candidate trying to be a cog in the machine of bureaucracy. He stands as an the prospective leader of an entire branch of government equal for-himself to the entire Federal judiciary. He does thus have an inherent privilage of kicking the stuffings out of it when it needs it.

Lawyers have taken over government in recent years and important legal actions have been made seemingly in concert of special elites transcending the three branches of government and forced upon the people below. That is a reason why the public wants someone besides a Washington insider to run the executive branch for a while-to try to put the elite, aloof rule-from-above and have the poor and middle-class eat it group set back a little from controlling the political fate of the nation; to let democracy have a chance for a time again.

http://www.npr.org/2016/06/04/480714972/trump-presses-case-that-mexican-judge-curiel-is-biased-against-him

If one is to go on the basis of race and voters choosing to cast a ballot for President Obama, it seems obvious that perhaps 95% of blacks voting for a black man had an implicit racism that cast aside concerns about morality, sin and economic competence in favor of race. Trump may be correct about the political timing of a Mexican judge hearing the case concerning a political candidate that plans to build a wall to defend the U.S. Mexican border against illegal immigration from Mexico. It is entirely possible that the judge has an implicit racial bias against Trump being elected. Trump can say that and probably be correct, perhaps not, however that is the way politics can go ahead in the U.S.A. The insider team has an advantage-a legal advantage they can play to their advantage.

Trumps comments are reasonable as simultaneous campaign positions and legal explorations that at least let the public be aware of the issues. Blacks may be under-represented on U.S. courts from the bench and Barrack Obama appointed none to the Supreme Court, and so they may have had a better reason to cast racist votes the last two elections. Federal Judges that work to support illegal immigration are sedulous though, and that is something a President would be concerned about. Trump isn't in office yet, just practicing perhaps.

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