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[–] selpai 1 point 10 points (+11|-1) ago 

No, he said the judge isn't qualified to rule on the case because they have ties to La Raza, and to Clinton.

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[–] hiphopafrica 3 points -2 points (+1|-3) ago 

For the record, I agree that the ties are true and I think the questioning of impartiality is legitimate.

However, that was not the way I heard Trump frame it. He said that it was because he was Mexican and that it would cause conflict due to Trump's building a wall. When asked a follow up of whether a muslim judge should be held in question for comments Trump made he said something along the lines of "Probably, very likely yes." There is definitely egg on his face over this and its his fault.

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[–] Joe_McCarthy [S] 1 point 3 points (+4|-1) ago 

That Curiel is of Mexican background is alone enough to reasonably cast suspicion on his conduct in this trial. If a white judge was repeatedly issuing hostile rulings in a similar case against, say, the leader of the New Black Panther Party, and that leader made an issue of the judge being white and thus possibly biased, there wouldn't be anything like the current Trump firestorm.