“I heard those words and I did not know if it was 1967 or 2017,” the U.S. District Court judge said, in a rare public rebuke of Trump.
By Reis Thebault Reis Thebault National and breaking news reporter Email Bio Follow April 13 at 7:00 AM President Trump has attacked the judiciary like few U.S. leaders before him, disparaging judges and their rulings as “dangerous,” “horrible” and “a complete and total disgrace.” Some of his supporters and fellow Republicans applaud and parrot him, but U.S.
“I know what I heard when a federal judge was called ‘very biased and unfair’ because he is ‘of Mexican heritage.’ When that judge’s ethnicity was said to prevent his issuing ‘fair rulings.’ When that judge was called a 'hater’ simply because he is Latino,” Reeves said. “I heard those words and I did not know if it was 1967 or 2017.”
U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves addresses the University of Virginia School of Law, giving a speech that amounted to a rare public rebuke of the Trump administration from a sitting federal judge. The second offensive came midway through the 20th century, Reeves said, and included the Southern Manifesto, a screed opposing the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the ruling against racial segregation in schools. More than 100 congressmen signed the document.
“When politicians attack courts as ‘dangerous,’ ‘political,’ and guilty of ‘egregious overreach,’ you can hear the Klan’s lawyers, assailing officers of the court across the South,” he said.
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