Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been widely criticized over his contention that U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel is biased against him and should be kicked off the Trump University fraud case because of his "Mexican heritage" and the fact that Trump wants to build a border wall with Mexico. On Sunday's Face the Nation, CBS's John Dickerson asked Trump if, given his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the U.S., "if it were a Muslim judge, would you also feel like they wouldn't be able to treat you fairly because of that policy of yours?"
"It's possible, yes," Trump said. "Yeah. That would be possible. Absolutely." Dickerson asked about the tradition in the U.S. "that we don't judge people by who their parents were and where they came from," and Trump responded, "I'm not talking about tradition, I'm talking about common sense, okay?"
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