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Related: About this forumOne paragraph that shows the absurdity of Trump's racial and religious tests for judges
Updated by German Lopez on June 6, 2016, 11:00 a.m. ET
In the past week, actual Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has seriously invoked both racial and religious tests for judges. He argues that the judge overseeing the lawsuit against Trump University can't be Hispanic or Muslim because, in essence, Trump has said bigoted things about both groups, so that might bias a judge against him.
On the one hand, a racial and religious test for a government job is obviously racist and bigoted. It doesn't get more prejudiced than denying someone a job simply because of his or her race, ethnicity, or religion.
But Trump's rationale is also extremely impractical from a legal standpoint. As Eugene Volokh, a prominent libertarian academic and law professor at UCLA, told BuzzFeed:
So by his standard, Trump could get any judge dismissed simply by insulting a group he or she belongs to. Trump may assume this is an ingenious legal strategy, but in reality it's so impractical that a prominent law professor says it literally can't be the case.
http://www.vox.com/2016/6/6/11862638/trump-university-judge-racist
He's losing even the libertarians.
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