{"id":6877,"date":"2017-04-20T09:03:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T13:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=6877"},"modified":"2017-04-20T09:03:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T13:03:20","slug":"disciplinary-hearing-judge-wore-trump-make-america-great-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/04\/20\/disciplinary-hearing-judge-wore-trump-make-america-great-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"Disciplinary hearing for judge who wore a Trump Make America Great Again hat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Ontario judge who wore the iconic cap to court in the week after the U.S. election is now facing judicial-disciplinary hearings that could force him off the bench, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/ontario-judge-who-wore-trump-hat-in-court-to-face-disciplinary-hearing\/article34756092\/?click=sf_globe\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Globe and Mail<\/a> reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Toronto paper, Provincial Court Justice Bernd Zabel wore the Make America Great Again cap and said in the court in Hamilton that it was \u201cjust in celebration of a historic night in the United States. Unprecedented.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-show\">\u00a0Justice Zabel added that the hat \u201cp\u2014-ed off the rest of the judges because they all voted for Hillary, so I was the only Trump supporter up there, but that\u2019s okay.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>But it was apparently not okay with 81 persons or groups who complained to the Ontario Judicial Council, several of whom identified themselves to the Globe and Mail, including the Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association, the Canadian Association of Muslim Women in Law, the Criminal Lawyers\u2019 Association and the Women\u2019s Legal Education and Action Fund.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a nutshell, LEAF\u2019s concern is that Justice Zabel\u2019s partisan display raises the appearance of, or apprehension of, a lack of impartiality, contrary to principles of judicial ethics,\u201d Kim Stanton, the group\u2019s legal director, told the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2017\/apr\/19\/bernd-zabel-judge-wearing-trump-hat-court-face-dis\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Wasington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">An Ontario judge who wore the iconic cap to court in the week after the U.S. election is now facing judicial-disciplinary hearings that could force him off the bench, the Toronto Globe and Mail reported <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/04\/20\/disciplinary-hearing-judge-wore-trump-make-america-great-hat\/\" title=\"Disciplinary hearing for judge who wore a Trump Make America Great Again hat\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[45,3335,3334,356,3336,3333,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-6877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"category-news","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-disciplinary-hearing","11":"tag-hat","12":"tag-judge","13":"tag-justice-zabel","14":"tag-maga","15":"tag-trump","16":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6879,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877\/revisions\/6879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}