Donald Trump’s Tweets About a Judge Find a Critic in an Unlikely Place: China<br />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<br />illegally, said Susan Finder, an American scholar who publishes the Supreme People’s Court Monitor, a blog that focuses on China’s top court.<br />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<br />that barred visitors from seven predominantly Muslim countries.<br />"They are looking to try to improve the prestige of the Chinese judiciary." Unlike the United States Supreme Court, which has nine<br />justices, China’s highest court has hundreds of judges, including those, like Judge He, whose main focus is outside the courtroom.<br />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<br />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.<br />Sinosphere By<br />MICHAEL FORSYTHE<br />FEB. 7, 2017<br />HONG KONG — President Trump’s public criticism of a federal judge who blocked his immigration<br />order was condemned across the political spectrum as an assault on judicial independence.
