'I don’t know what to say. It’s extremely embarrassing,' Shelby County Criminal Court Judge Jim Lammey said.
A Memphis criminal court judge posted a link to an article written by a prominent Holocaust denier, which referred to Muslim immigrants as"foreign mud" and said that Jews should"get the f**k over the Holocaust." The judge also posted a string of Facebook posts expressing negative feelings about undocumented immigrants in recent months.
Commerical Appeal reported that many of articles Lamney posted came from websites like Breitbart and that the judge had shared a number of posts regularly advocating against illegal immigration, some of which contained false information. He also posted a meme containing the disproved claim that Democrats created"an avocado shortage crisis" to create panic about President Trump's threat to completely shut down the U.S.-Mexico border.
"I don’t know if that meant that I agreed with it all or if it was just a reason to have a good conversation," Lamney told Commercial Appeal while speaking about the article from Cole. "I certainly don’t agree with that, being a Holocaust denier. My best friend — who’s deceased now — was Jewish and I wouldn’t do that."
In a column about the importance of local news, Memphis Flyer editor Bruce VanWyngarden quipped about the Lammey."Just the kind of guy you want making decisions about immigrants, right? Which, among other things, is exactly what Lammey does. He did say his best friend was Jewish, so there's that. Go read the story. It's nauseating," he wrote.
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