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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/crime/article198151899.htmlTrump ripped this judge as hater. Now hell hear environmental case on border wall.
By Stuart Leavenworth
February 05, 2018 05:00 AM
Updated 4 hours 25 minutes ago
WASHINGTON
A federal judge in California who Donald Trump once derided for his ethnicity will hear a case Friday that could determine the presidents latitude to waive environmental laws, paving the way for his big, beautiful border wall.
The judge is the U.S. District Courts Gonzalo Curiel, whom Trump berated during the 2016 campaign for his handling of a lawsuit involving Trump University. Trump called the San Diego jurist a hater and a Mexican who disliked Trump because of his strong border stands, even though Curiel was born in the United States and built his reputation prosecuting cross-border drug crimes.
Curiel never publicly responded to Trumps taunts, and colleagues say he has a record of impartiality that will guide his handling of the case. Still, the litigation is sure to put Curiel in the spotlight again and the outcome will be closely watched by border wall opponents and advocates, including the president himself.
This is a very significant case, said Andrew Gordon, an Arizona lawyer who worked at the Department of Homeland Security for two years during the Obama administration. If Curiel rules against the administration, it could slow Trumps plans to quickly fortify the unfenced portions of the U.S.-Mexico border, he said, even if a higher court ultimately overturned the ruling.
Gordon, however, said the groups suing the administration bear a significant burden in demonstrating that DHS has overreached with its recent waiving of environmental laws. Candidly, Congress intended to give the (DHS) secretary the broadest, widest authority, said Gordon, an attorney with the Coppersmith Brockelman law firm in Phoenix.
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,159 posts)traitor is and therefore chief traitor's puke wall will get a fair hearing.
Donald Trump or as I call him "chief traitor" is not fit to speak this patriots name.
niyad
(114,158 posts)bitterross
(4,066 posts)I have confidence the judge will be fair and impartial. 45's comments about him will not affect his ruling.
missingm
(56 posts)This could potentially set Trump off on a multi week racist rant against a "Mexican judge" just as the negotiations on the immigration bill heat up. Ryan and other R's have already staked out a hard position against Trump on that sort of thing, and we all know where Trump's heart is. The huge settlement "loss" probably chews him up inside.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Gothmog
(146,202 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,959 posts)that we have to count on someone else to protect us from our own president........
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