Let the judge take full responsibility if any allowed into the US commits a crime against an American citizen.
February 3, 2017 By Jessica McBride
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The federal judge who temporarily stopped Donald Trump’s immigration ban executive order once caused controversy by emotionally saying “black lives matter” in a hearing in which he sided against Seattle’s police union.
James Robart, who was nominated to the federal bench by George W. Bush in 2004, issued the temporary restraining order in an oral ruling, forbidding federal employees from implementing Trump’s seven-country ban.
But it’s not the first time the judge was in the news.
According to the Seattle Times, Robart declared “black lives matter” in a court hearing last August in which he decided against a Seattle police union. You can watch the video above. The judge shook his head and sighed emotionally as he made the comment. He also accused the Seattle police union of trying to hold the community “hostage” by tying compensation to services guaranteed to people by the U.S. Constitution.
The Seattle newspaper reported that Robart was presiding over “a 2012 consent decree requiring the city to adopt reforms to address Department of Justice allegations of excessive force and biased policing.” He “called for major changes that would directly affect the union’s membership: streamlined appeals of officer discipline and internal investigations conducted by civilians rather than sworn officers,” the newspaper reported.
At the end of the hearing, according to the Seattle Times, Judge Robart then became “deeply personal,” noting “a statistic that showed, nationally, 41 percent of the shootings by police were of blacks, when they represented 20 percent of the population” and referencing high-profile police shootings.
According to his judicial bio, Robart was a lawyer from 1973 through 1996 with Lane Powell Moss & Miller. He was co-managing partner from 1997-2002 at Lane Powell Spears Lubersky, and managing partner there from 2003-2004. The judge has a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center (1973), where he was Administrative Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal, 1972-1973. He has a bachelor’s degree from Whitman College.
In another police-related case, according to Above the Law, Robart doubled the city payout to people whose dog was tasered by the police, accusing the city lawyers of “terrible writing” and denying the city lawyer’s claim the people were “persecuted.” He wrote, “The treatment of the Jews by the Pharaohs in ancient Egypt, that was a persecution. What Nazi Germany did in the Third Reich, that is a persecution.”