A Utah judge has been suspended for six months without pay after he made a series of critical statements about President Donald Trump online and in his courtroom over the past few years.Kwan, who has served as a justice court judge in Taylorsville for 20 years, was cited for “improper use of judicial authority and his inappropriate political commentary,” the latter often involving President Trump.
Almost a month after Trump’s inauguration, Kwan said “welcome to the beginning of the fascist takeover” and questioned whether Congressional Republicans would be “the American Reichstag,” this time referring to the political body of Nazi Germany. The court ruling also noted a moment in court that demonstrated the judge’s political leanings and views of the president.
ABOUT TIME THESE LIBERAL JUDGES ARE HELD ACCOUNTABLE!!
Send that judge to Venezuela
Hope he uses those 6 months doing work for people who can't afford bail, consumer rights or some environmental group.
What about judges that repeatedly let rapists go free? Why does nothing happen to them? Or child and animal abusers...let go. This judge just has intelligence.
This is what should happen to Congress Dems also. He is the President of U.S. You don’t slander, you respect!
Wow; we can't get cops who use racial and sexist slurs, who abuse & commit murder suspended-much less without pay & it happens daily; we can't get judges rulings overturned much less investigated when critical comments are made in cases they oversee, but criticize 45=suspension?
Judge just speaking the truth
It’s happening!!!!
Should have been fired!!
There is no place for party bias on the bench. He should be removed, not suspended
A judge here got busted in two separate drug raids at crack houses with hookers and got to retire early with a 250,000 a year pay for life.
They need to be neutral parties. So yah.
Looks like this judge doesn’t move away from the feeding troft much eh.
Unless review saw his decisions biased, I don't see his having political views and being passionate an issue. He was not a US court judge. Maybe judges need to be more human/passionate
Why?
I understand how he feels. 45 does it all the time and he is suppose to be the leader. Give me a break.
What about that! It's about time partisan judges get penalized. Too bad we can't get these morons before they legislate from the bench. DEAR JUDGES APPLY ONLY THE LAW NOT YOUR PARTISANSHIP!
So they're punishing a judge for having his constitutional right to have an opinion,and speak it?!? The other melting judges need to lighten up. It's not like he wasn't saying what a MAJORITY of Americans are,and continue to think,that Trump is a piss poor excuse of a President!!
So can POTUS be suspended for six months then for making these types of politically charged comments?
Good for him at least he’s not a phoney!
No right to free speech once becoming a judge?
What has the USA become under Trump? Evidently not a democracy but a dictatorship.
What about Barr? He is the attorney general for the people of the United States not for Don the con. Seen t the Trump hotel for a Republican fund raiser.
Funny how trumpy can talk shit daily but that bum keeps his job, but a judge uses his 1st amendment right and gets suspended......this is the future of this country. Do not let this stop you from criticizing the right. Don't let them steal shit quietly.
He is not fit to judge others!!
This is so dumb. Sue them
So in other words, a judge lies to get confirmed to SCOTUS holding their prejudices & bias silent while another judge exercises constitutional free speech rights, suspended without evidence of bias in his rulings. Meanwhile POTUS lies daily & still in office. Make sense to us!
A JUDGE CAN BE THE JUDGE OF POTUS LIKE ANY CITIZEN
Is this even lawful?
GOP SpeakerPelosi realDonaldTrump Kwan wrote on Facebook, “Think I’ll go to the shelter to adopt a cat before the President-Elect grabs them all” — a reference to the 'Access Hollywood' tape in which Trump was heard bragging about grabbing women's genitals without consent.
There are many judges who are affiliated with Democrats such judges DOJ should start investigating in Judges behavior
Question: who is searching the social media of serving US judges? jimwaterson FT BuzzFeedNews HuffPost
America judges are affiliated with Democrats, those judges need to be sack
He should be ban because judges are not to be affiliated with a political party
Elect him to the supreme court.
Why would they suspend someone who stood up against TRUMP'S dictatorial regime?The ignorant DOTARD who calls himself president should be the one to be impeached and removed from that sit immediately b4 it's too late.
We have freedom of speech in this country regardless of who or what the president is or thinks he is
Only suspended why not disbarred
Inching towards dictatorship a little every single day. Trump’s advisors lie to Congress and nothing happens. Trump lies every single day nothing happens. Subpenas are disobeyed by the highest members of Trump’s admin and nothing happens. 2020 will B 2 late.
This is what a dictatorship looks like
That's good there's still plenty more to go
Uh..what? Doesn’t trump do that every day?
ILOVERAFA1 Shades of things to come if we don't get it together.
Yet Barr manages to keep his job and destroy America's justice system in the process. This nation is completely f*****.
So what is the surprise? Trump always manages to “deal” with ppl who oppose him in any way. He is this country’s presidential godfather. He always “deals” with ppl.
Oh wow
Good these judges on both side should shut up and just follow the law and not be political.
Ought to get a pay raise.
Can they do that?
Wth! That’s way too dictatorial.
Judge suspended 6 mo. for making critical statements about Pres. Trump online & in his courtroom over a few yrs. = Clearly deserved suspension. Political bias has no place on the bench. Judiciary may be the only institution left which we expect to at least appear non-political.
gaia1166 Goodbye freedom.
Just another left wing activist judge! SHM
AP DMRegister RepCindyAxne So much for separate but equal branch’s of government.
Wow! First amendment doesn’t support a judge telling the truth. Sorry 👨⚖️
Proper thing to do!!!!! You should never have your thumb on the scale as a judge. These activist judges are slowly being weeded out. Thanks Obama.
Screw trump...
We have a clown in the WH. He's fat over weight, does a comb over, has small hands. Thanks judge for telling the truth
If and when the D's get in they can give him federal judgeship for life.
Partisan politics do not belong in the judiciary.
Facism is alive and well in the US and abroad.
Donnie NY is surely horrible, but yeah politics and being a judge are supposed to be fundamentally seperated by necessity.
The U.S looks more like Saudi Arabia under Trump,,
He should have been promoted!
About Fucking time there’s accountability to thesevidiot liberals.
Only here in Mormonville could this happen. There is no separation of church and state.
Free speech! People you are loosing your voice!!! So scared for the USA
Yea the pure and without sin Mormons have judged him.
Good
He should be rewarded!
Look at all the things the president say and do so I'm sure he'll be to be suspended
Our own POTUS says worse and yet he is still President. It makes no sense that we don't expect our own leader to set an example of honor, grace and worthy of leading.
I'm ok with this but it needs to be applied equally to any judge who praises Trump as well. Judges need to maintain impartiality.
What country is this? When you can’t openly criticize political leaders, we are no longer a democracy. Utah
see! you cant make critical statements about a mental case, lying, megalomaniac or you will be punished- boy are we in for a civil war unless trump goes
OMG!!! Did the judge say that Trump had sex with porn stars while his wife was pregnant? Did he say that he tried to buy their silence? Did he say he then lied to the American public about it? How dare he say those things! WTF was he thinking? The nerve of that judge!
He should lose his Judgeship
Good. I hate individual 1, he must be impeached. But the judiciary must remain nonpartisan at all costs, its one of the last bastions of true democracy in this country
SUSPENDED!!!!! SUSPENDED!!!!! HE SHOULD BE REMOVED N FIRED!!!!!!!!
Why the fuck hasn't realDonaldTrump been suspended for 'critical statements' against Russia, North Korea, women's rights, and literally everything else that makes this world so fucked up?!
If trump can slam people on social media, then why not a judge! Was he picked out bbecause he told truths about the trump crime syndicate?
Poor judgment
Suspending him for this is un-American!
You get punished for criticizing a despot? Thank you judge for speaking the truth about the moronic realDonaldTrump.
When did criticisms became a crime. Wow what is happening my beloved USA. They are slowly becoming Russian wanna be, or dictatorial country.
Utah is trash.
Nothing new. These activist judges must be stopped.
Violation of his Constitutional rights as a citizen. If he didn't create posts on social media during this working hours, he should not be suspended. SoWrong!
We are at the point where you can’t speak against the “president”
So much for freedom of speech on this one.
Bye 👋
This is the scariest of all so far. We are not in Kansas anymore.
Does s judge not have freedom of speech
Could we please just suspend Trump without pay for the rest of his term? He embarrasses the heck out our country every single day. Worst president ever! VoteBlueToSaveAmerica VoteBlueNoMatterWho 🇺🇸
WTF?
What the fuck
The Gestapo is now in the USA government
Good. His job is that of a judge, not a politician.
So, Trump can say all sorts of shit about judges, insulting them, insulting their heritage and questioning their legitimacy but a judge can't exercise his first amendment right?
Is it illegal for a judge to express his opinion ?
trump act's like a dictator. Now freedom of speech is shot all to hell, whats next?
😥😥😥
Comments here from liberals are pathetic. Maybe next time they will nominate someone who is not corrupt as hell like Hillary. They have nobody to blame but themselves for nominating that icon of corruption
How about trump being suspended for bad mouthing a Mexican judge, grabbing pussy, or calling Jeff sessions and other people very descriptive words. He’s talked and acted terribly to people. Are we giving him a pass because he has dementia?
God forbid a judge speaks like 84% of us do
Judges should be objective
Aren’t judges supposed to be neutral?
I thought this was a free speech country. Am I mistaken? Or has Trump really succeeded in make out country a dictatorship?
Trump sold us out a longtime ago!
For saying the truth?
Is that a “ he?”
Dictatorship at last...
I agree with the ruling but what about the way the President of the United States tweets and the things he says?
Wow!!! However, racist cowardly cops who shoot unarmed Black people in the back get three months of paid vacation while waiting for their acquittals.🤬🤬
This should be good precedent for suspending all Trump judges without pay starting in Jan 2021. GOPCesspool TrumpSwamp
Good
Throw his Sorry Ass out
How does that work?
Whatever happened to free speech! I’m sure the dictator wanna be had something to do with this
The Demokkkrat should resign if he had any standards. But then again he’s a Demokkkrat.
Now that’s a shithole state
Ist that the kind of thing America would complain about to the comunist countries?
Good! It’s about time leftist get punished.
I agree 100% with the judge about Trump and his right to express his opinions but he needs to keep it out of the courtroom.
Alarming
What? WTF?
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