A judge who condemned a “despicable” protest against Jewish students at a California university is set to preside over Hunter Biden’s tax evasion case.

Trump-appointed Judge Mark Scarsi made international headlines on August 14 when he issued a temporary restraining order at a protest at the University of California, Los Angeles, prohibiting students from passing through certain areas of campus unless they disavowed the State of Israel.

He is now set to preside over Hunter Biden’s tax trial, which is set to begin in Los Angeles in September. Prosecutors say Hunter Biden, the 54-year-old son of President Joe Biden, failed to pay $1.4 million in federal taxes from 2016 to 2019. He is accused of three serious tax offenses and six minor tax offenses.

In a preliminary injunction in the UCLA case, Scarsi wrote: “Jewish students were excluded from parts of the UCLA campus because they refused to renounce their faith.”

“This fact is so unimaginable and so odious a contradiction to our constitutionally guaranteed religious freedom that it bears repeating: Jewish students were excluded from parts of the UCLA campus because they refused to renounce their faith.”

Scarsi said that while the university does not take responsibility for the pro-Palestinian protests, “UCLA may deny religious services to some students if it knows that other students are excluded for religious reasons, regardless of who initiated that exclusion.”

Jury selection in the Hunter Biden case is scheduled to take place on September 5, and the trial is scheduled to begin on September 9.

Special Counsel David Weiss’ team told Scarsi that a witness would testify about Hunter Biden’s alleged collusion with a Romanian businessman who tried to “influence U.S. government policy” during Joe Biden’s tenure as vice president.

Newsweek contacted Hunter Biden’s attorney via email outside of normal business hours for comment.

Scarsi has had a varied career. According to his LinkedIn profile, he “worked for seven years as a software engineer, designing and developing computer systems for detection and signal processing for U.S. defense applications.”

In a 2010 interview with legal website Lawdragon, Scarsi said his work involved processing sonar data to better identify enemy torpedoes at sea and that he had also worked on anti-submarine systems.

He later worked as a patent attorney, drawing on his knowledge of software.

He also told Lawdragon that he TV program Magazine in a case before the International Trade Commission.

The dispute concerned the use of patented software, and he was able to use his software knowledge to gain insight into the computer code and thus challenge the statements of computer engineers.

He worked for the Los Angeles office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, where he was a partner for 11 years and headed the firm’s West Coast intellectual property practice.

In 2018, Trump nominated Scarsi to be a federal judge for the Central District of California and he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 15, 2020.