Donald Trump’s Tweets About a Judge Find a Critic in an Unlikely Place: China
He admire the American legal system and study it to improve China’s rules, such as how to handle plea bargains or what to do with evidence obtained
illegally, said Susan Finder, an American scholar who publishes the Supreme People’s Court Monitor, a blog that focuses on China’s top court.
Judge He Fan of the Supreme People’s Court of China published a scathing blog post about Mr. Trump’s reaction to Judge James L. Robart’s recent ruling blocking key parts of his executive order
that barred visitors from seven predominantly Muslim countries.
"They are looking to try to improve the prestige of the Chinese judiciary." Unlike the United States Supreme Court, which has nine
justices, China’s highest court has hundreds of judges, including those, like Judge He, whose main focus is outside the courtroom.
In his post, which includes an image of a caustic Twitter post in which Mr. Trump referred to the "so-called judge" who blocked his immigration order, Judge
He also takes aim at violence against judicial officials in China, bringing up a case of the killing of a retired jurist in the southern region of Guangxi.
Sinosphere By
MICHAEL FORSYTHE
FEB. 7, 2017
HONG KONG — President Trump’s public criticism of a federal judge who blocked his immigration
order was condemned across the political spectrum as an assault on judicial independence.
