Trump said Curiel should not hear a lawsuit against Trump University because Trump’s hard-line immigration polices presented a conflict of interest for Curiel, who is of Mexican descent. Congress packed courts with judges who were ex-Confederates and who had promised to fight for slavery, Reeves said. “Its signatories pushed to strip federal courts of jurisdiction over civil rights claims and impeach judges receptive to those claims,” Reeves said. There is no excuse for this exclusion of minority experiences from our courts.”[Trump’s personal, racially tinged attacks on federal judge alarm legal experts]Judges, especially at the federal level, typically try to eschew partisan tangles, particularly with presidents. Reeves gave his speech Thursday as he accepted the university’s Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law, one of its highest awards.

Source: Washington Post April 13, 2019 11:00 UTC