Posted on 11/22/2016 8:50:38 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
A federal judge under fire for reportedly telling newly sworn-in U.S. citizens last week that Donald Trump is "your president, and if you don't like that, you need to go to another country," was suspended Monday from overseeing further citizenship ceremonies.
U.S. Magistrate Judge John Primomo said he was not trying to tell the new Americans to leave if they didn't like Trump.
"I would never say anything like that. I wasn't trying to say anything for or against Donald Trump," Primomo, 64, said. "I was just trying to say something hopeful and unifying and unfortunately it was taken out of context."
Despite his assurances, the U.S. district judges at San Antonio's federal courthouse -- who appoint and oversee federal magistrate judges -- issued a statement saying they "have determined that he will no longer be handling citizenship ceremonies, and the judges are meeting with him to see how this matter can be resolved and concluded."
Primomo has been a go-to judge for such ceremonies since 1989, and has sworn in more than 100,000 new citizens. The ceremonies are held roughly once a month, in various venues, and can include live bands, singing, speeches from guests or testimony from participants.
But Primomo, who's been on the bench since 1988, caused a firestorm after a video report over the weekend by a local television station, KENS, that covered a ceremony last week at the Institute of Texan Cultures.
Primomo told KENS that he meant to urge people to be respectful of the office of the president and said he didn't vote for Donald Trump himself. But the report thrust Primomo into the national news -- and into the approving embrace of many conservative websites. He called it "a difficult situation."
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So he gets a 58 day vacation and then he is brought back...meh!
He should be promoted to the USSC!
It is no big deal. He is suspended from swearing in new citizens. Not from his other duties.
I’d like to see this judge in the Supreme Court.
Good that he had the courage and he is exactly right. Trump was legally elected by the people, according to the election laws of the US.
“A closed mouth gathers no foot”.
If the good judge had explained his comment further at the time it was made, perhaps he would still be sitting on the bench, swearing in new citizens.
I saw on Fox the judge was a Hillary supporter
We need a moratorium on select nations. YES, LIKE MEXICO AND SOUTH AMERICA AND THIRD WORLD NATIONS. Enough already!
Such a statement statement is NOT "racist"; it's America-First-ism and the prerogative and opinion of MOST Americans.
Two month vacation for the judge.
Back to having to work after January 20th
And the problem is...?
I hope Trump puts this judge on the federal bench.
Judge tells New U.S. Citizens to accept Trump or “Go to Another Country”...? And the problem is what?
Oops. Already on fed bench.
What he told them was Civics 101 in the days before the Democrats weaponized Alinkyism.
We have elections every four years. Whatever the outcome you accept that person as your POTUS for the next four years.
Protest and free expression are your absolute rights. But you do not desecrate the Flag and what it stands for.
Amazingly these new arrivals seemed to understand all that better than millions of Democrats who were born here.
You’d like to see this judge on SCOTUS? Really, even after he clearly said he did not vote for Trump. Seems like a Democrat who just was doing the right thing for a change. Hardly deserving a promotion to the Supreme Court. Let’s keep the eye on the ball.
He’ll be promoted to a higher court in January......
“I would be curious what he actually said — the full set of remarks, rather than a selected subset.”
I agree, and I strongly suspect it was in response to some tantrum by some ‘migrant’ on the cusp of citizenship.
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