INDIANAPOLIS (AP)
— Indiana Gov. Mike Pence says comments made by presumptive Republican
presidential nominee Donald Trump about the Mexican heritage of an
Indiana-born judge were "inappropriate."
The Republican
governor rebuked Trump on Tuesday, saying it's not ever appropriate to
question the impartiality of judges based on their ethnic backgrounds.
U.S. District
Judge Gonzalo Curiel is overseeing a civil case brought against Trump
University. Trump says Curiel cannot be impartial because his parents were
born in Mexico and Trump wants to build a wall along the border.
Curiel was born
in East Chicago and graduated from Indiana University's Maurer School of
Law in Bloomington.
Pence also says
he's focused on his own re-election bid and doesn't think he must respond
to every development in the presidential race.
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