Donald Trump would be terrible at Wheel of Fortune. And not just because he always seems to come up “Bankrupt” — at least six times — the guy seems to just have terrible luck with fate.

During the campaign, Trump repeatedly bashed Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel as biased against him because of Curiel’s Latinx heritage. Well, technically Trump called Curiel a “Mexican Judge,” when he wasn’t calling him “Spanish,” but the point is, Trump claimed the Indiana-born judge was biased because Trump was making a big deal about building a wall.

And now Judge Curiel will be presiding over the most significant legal challenge to building that wall. This is, you might recall, the second time Judge Curiel found himself on a high-profile case involving Trump’s immigration policy, having previously landed on case against ICE for deporting a kid in the country legally and then changing their story about it when they got caught.

Now, again, Judge Curiel lands in an important Trump proxy war. There will, no doubt, be some effort from the government to get Judge Curiel to recuse himself, even though the judicial system cannot countenance allowing parties to judge-shop by insulting their assigned judge and claiming a conflict, even if that party is sitting in the White House.

It’s worth noting, of course, that you shouldn’t make racist attacks against anybody, regardless of their job, but the repercussions of targeting a judge seem particularly relevant for this particular guy. It’s not that Judge Curiel is going to be swayed by this history — he’s the professional in this equation — this is just an instance of karmic retribution. It doesn’t matter that Judge Curiel is going to be eminently fair, the fact that Trump thinks the judge might not be will be enough psychic torture. And that’s why you definitely don’t make racist attacks against a federal judge.

The judge Trump disparaged as ‘Mexican’ will preside over an important border wall case [Washington Post]

Earlier: This Is Why You Never Make Racist Attacks Against A Federal Judge

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