I was commenting about the fact that there are four major law schools in the bay area and that the odds that a judge went to undergrad and law school at one or two of these are great. Thus, recusing oneself because of similar college experience would be difficult for many of Santa Clara judges. This is similar to the kind of argument that Trump is making about Justice Curiel: he’s of Hispanic heritage, so he must be biased.
My brother went to Cal and the Santa Clara for law. He also played water polo at Cal. He’s been in municipal law his entire career, but I can’t even imagine that if he were a judge that if he would have done what this judge did if a Cal athlete came before him.
Simply put, Persky did not do what he was sworn to do.
