Donald attacks Mexicans now he will be Judged in Supreme court by a Mexican American…is this Karma?
Donald Trump increased his attacks on the federal judge presiding over a civil fraud lawsuit against Trump University, questioning his impartiality in handling the case because his Mexican heritage is “an inherent conflict of interest.” Just a few hours after securing the endorsement of House Speaker Paul Ryan, the presumptive Republican nominee said that U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel had “an absolute conflict” due to his ethnic background, adding, “I’m building a wall. It’s an inherent conflict of interest,” according to the TWSJ
Curiel was born in East Chicago, to Mexican parents. He spent years prosecuting drug traffickers coming across the U.S.-Mexico border as a top official in the Justice Department’s amongst other cases. He was later appointed to the federal bench by President Barack Obama. Trump’s comments come hours after he expressed confidence that he would win the case regardless of Curiel’s alleged bias.
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Perhaps one reason Trump lashed out at Curiel once more was the release of documents from the case on Tuesday, which painted Trump University in an unflattering light.
Such attacks are not unprecedented in U.S. history, but those attacks have tended be viewed as shameful and scurrilous in retrospect—and sometimes at the time. The notion that duly appointed or elected judges cannot rule fairly on cases involving groups to which they belong has been soundly rejected. In 2010, defendants arguing for the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage, attempted to disqualify Judge Vaughn Walker because he was gay. One problem with that argument was that it implied that straight judges would also be hopelessly biased. In 1994, Judge Michael Mukasey—who would later serve as attorney general under George W. Bush—denied a motion for him to recuse himself from a World Trade Center bombing trial, on the grounds that he was Jewish and a Zionist. He rejected the idea that the defendant’s bigotry made it necessary for him to withdraw from the case. “That someone with an imagination or a motive might hallucinate relevance is not the standard, and therefore cannot provide the basis for decision,” he wrote.
The pioneering black jurist A. Leon Higginbotham made that point eloquently in a landmark ruling in 1974:
It would be a tragic day for the nation and the judiciary if a myopic vision of the judge’s role should prevail, a vision that required judges to refrain from participating in their churches, in their non-political community affairs, in their universities. So long as Jewish judges preside over matters where Jewish and Gentile litigants disagree; so long as Protestant judges preside over matters were Protestant and Catholic litigants disagree; so long as white judges preside over matters where white and black litigants disagree, I will preside over matters where black and white litigants disagree.
Trump’s claim is even less relevant, though, as ethnicity plays no apparent role in the Trump U. case. His argument also sits in uncomfortable contradiction to his prior claims that “the Latinos love me.”
Setting aside the race-baiting claim in this case, Trump’s comment points to a disturbing pattern of behavior. Trump has either proven incapable of disentangling his business concerns from his political campaign, or else is guilty of intentionally intertwining the two. Early in the Trump campaign, cynics and comedians joked that his presidential run was simply a way to further his business concerns. As the campaign progresses, that joke has lost its comedic edge. In his assault on Curiel, Trump has combined a business interest, the class-action lawsuit against Trump University, with a political interest, the wall he claims he will build along the U.S. border with Mexico.
This isn’t the only example of such a conflation; in fact, it’s not even the only example of such a conflation this week. Trump recently revealed that the PGA was moving the World Golf Championship from the Trump Doral course in Florida to—in what might seem like a pointed choice—Mexico. Trump suggested the blow to his golf course could be rectified by his election as the nation’s leader.
“They moved the World Golf Championships from Miami to Mexico City. Can you believe it? Can you believe it?” Trump said in Sacramento. “Not good. But that’s OK. Folks, it’s all going to be settled. You vote for Donald Trump as president, if I become your president, this stuff is all going to stop.” (Elsewhere he sniped, “I hope they have kidnapping insurance.”)
Trump also suggested reopening the “university,” a move that would be challenging because before the institution’s closure he was forced to rename it, as he had no license to operate a school in New York:
Trump is always pushing the needle and that needle, carries some ideals that appeal to many Americans that feel disenfranchised and have lost trust and respect for their government. His “Let’s make America Great again” has captured the eyes, souls and ears of Millions, it’s a brilliant political campaign because the short version says: “Let’s take away the politicians who have been full of it and lets empower the people that want to be empowered” This speaks to the masses, that can relate of feel this way. like I said, its a brilliant platform and brilliant campaign! However Mr. Trump also pushes the needle of hate and racism not to mentions arrogance and a divisive approach to just about all he says and does, and that absolutely kills some of the good elements of this campaign…of this platform of “Let’s make America Great Again”… want proof, he even got the nomination of the leader of the KKK!!! He should be ashamed of that, this is 2016, not 1916.
Make sure you go out and vote during the primaries, even if you don’t like any candidates much, make sure you go out and vote for someone that did not get the endorsement of the KKK!!! Tu Voto Cuenta!!
