A federal judge in Detroit with ties to Jewish organizations has angrily rejected an unusual motion urging him to recuse in an immigration case brought by a Palestinian-American woman.

Invoking the name of judges ranging from Louis Brandeis to Leon Higginbotham and Michael Mukasey, U.S. District Judge Paul Borman said the motion “strikes at the very heart of a federal judge’s pledge to administer impartial justice, and does so with careless and rank speculation.”