Posted on 06/06/2016 7:51:29 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
Top Republican officials and donors are increasingly worried about the threat Donald Trump's attack on a judge's Mexican heritage could pose to their party's chances in November -- and about the GOP's ability to win Latino votes for many elections to come.
Trump is under fire for repeatedly accusing U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is overseeing a lawsuit involving Trump University, of bias because of his Mexican heritage. Those concerns intensified Sunday after Trump said he would have the same concerns about the impartiality of a Muslim judge.
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Good question - some say he has already ruled in trump's favor a couple of times, but that would have been before he was running for President with a "Stop the Illegal Invasion" platform....
It is but it must be clearly communicated Dick Cheney style. That way it is a win-win situation always.
GOP is an acronym for ‘Grand Old Pantywaist’ apparently.
Why did Mr. Trump agree to align with these fools?
Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says Donald Trump is right to challenge the fairness a judge overseeing lawsuits against him.
“An independent judiciary is extremely important. But that value is not the only one in play here,” Gonzales wrote in a Saturday op-ed for The Washington Post.
“Equally important, if not more important from my perspective as a former judge and U.S. attorney general, is a litigant’s right to a fair trial,” he continued.
“The protection of that right is a primary reason why our Constitution provides for an independent judiciary. If judges and the trials over which they preside are not perceived as impartial, the public will quickly lose interest in the rule of law upon which our nation is based.” Trump on Thursday said U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel’s Hispanic ethnicity is “an absolute conflict” in three civil fraud lawsuits against the billionaire.Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says Donald Trump is right to challenge the fairness a judge overseeing lawsuits against him.
“An independent judiciary is extremely important. But that value is not the only one in play here,” Gonzales wrote in a Saturday op-ed for The Washington Post.
“Equally important, if not more important from my perspective as a former judge and U.S. attorney general, is a litigant’s right to a fair trial,” he continued.
“The protection of that right is a primary reason why our Constitution provides for an independent judiciary. If judges and the trials over which they preside are not perceived as impartial, the public will quickly lose interest in the rule of law upon which our nation is based.” Trump on Thursday said U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel’s Hispanic ethnicity is “an absolute conflict” in three civil fraud lawsuits against the billionaire.Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says Donald Trump is right to challenge the fairness a judge overseeing lawsuits against him.
“An independent judiciary is extremely important. But that value is not the only one in play here,” Gonzales wrote in a Saturday op-ed for The Washington Post.
“Equally important, if not more important from my perspective as a former judge and U.S. attorney general, is a litigant’s right to a fair trial,” he continued.
“The protection of that right is a primary reason why our Constitution provides for an independent judiciary. If judges and the trials over which they preside are not perceived as impartial, the public will quickly lose interest in the rule of law upon which our nation is based.” Trump on Thursday said U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel’s Hispanic ethnicity is “an absolute conflict” in three civil fraud lawsuits against the billionaire.
STFU GOP.
Very true but he needs to make that point specifically and also point out the Clinton stooge involvement too.
“Either its not true or there is a deliberate cover-up by the national Media.”
If it were not true they would all immediately say so. Therefore, I’m sure it is the latter.
FUDC!
Whatever the case with this judge, the whole thing has taken the ‘Rat Party paid-for Brown Shirt attacks on the Trump crowd in San Jose completely off the radarscope.
And that is a travesty.
Hey Trump!! Tell The GOP To Go To Hell!! Keep Up The Way You’re Going!!
That photo is so telling. These folks are not ok with Trump, but they are just fine with the white witch on their “Mexican soil” as long as they keep getting the free handouts.
The GOP needs a reality check. They are willing to prostitute their values for a small percentage of 13% of the population?
Trump has repeated countless times that most Latinos will vote for him because he will bring back jobs, and illegals would steal jobs. But the reality is, jobs may not be on the mind of some Latinos, at least. Instead, food stamps, welfare checks, free tuitions, free housing may be.
Most of these La Raza types have no particular interest in returning the southwest US to the control of the Mexican government, nor any particular loyalty to the Mexican government. What they want is a situation where Mexicans/Chicanos have numerical and cultural dominance in the region, while enjoying all of the benefits of American infrastructure and social programs. White politicians are fine at the state and national if not necessarily the local level, as long as they pander to them and give them what they want.
They still don’t get it.
I despise them more than I hate the Democrats.
The Uniparty is united around everything... but the good of the country.
If a large percentage of legal and illegal aliens voted conservative, you know Democrats would be demanding the wall.
They already did.
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