It’s hard to narrow down the most offensive attack from Donald Trump. After all, who has that kind of time? But certainly ranking up there are his racist remarks about Judge Gonzalo Curiel in 2016. Then-candidate Trump claimed Curiel, who was at the time overseeing the Trump University lawsuit that Mr. I-Don’t-Settle later settled for, was unfit to hear the case due to his Mexican heritage, saying “I'm building a wall … he's a Mexican.” Shit, even spineless House Speaker Paul Ryan called it the “textbook definition of a racist comment” (and then voted for him anyway).
Well, Judge Curiel is back, and the new case he’s overseeing could be a wall of trouble for Trump’s stupid wall:
District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who was targeted by the president while he was the judge of a class-action lawsuit against the president's now-defunct Trump University, will on Friday hear the case brought by the state of California, some environmental groups and Rep. Raúl Grijalva , D-Ariz. It challenges waivers that were given to the federal branch more than 10 years ago to bypass some federal and state laws for border security.
The case, which was initially three separate lawsuits before being consolidated by Curiel, represents a substantial legal challenge to the construction of Trump's potential border wall.
Andrew Gordon, a former Department of Homeland Security lawyer during the Obama administration, told McClatchy, which first reported the story, that a ruling against the administration could slow plans for construction along the U.S.-Mexico border, even if the ruling is later overturned.
"This is a very significant case," Gordon told the news service.
Back during the Trump University case, Trump attempted to dismiss Judge Curiel as “very unfair … totally biased.” Of course, the fact is that Curiel, the U.S.-born son of Mexican immigrants, is a respected judge who at one time “was targeted for assassination when he was a federal prosecutor working to lock up some of the worst of the worst Mexican cartel members members.” So if there’s one thing Trump can count on—despite the very true fact that he has a complete disregard for the judiciary system and the rule of law, among many other things—is that Curiel will be very fair to him and this case. Not that Trump is really all that deserving of it to begin with. “I can tell you with certainty it will not impact him at all,” Attorney Gregory Vega said regarding Curiel. “He will follow the rule of law.”
