Posted on 06/09/2016 3:36:52 AM PDT by Enchante
A Washington D.C. law professor has given credence to Donald Trump’s charge that U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel has a conflict of interest in a court case involving the likely Republican presidential nominee, saying the judge’s affiliation with a group that advocated for illegal immigrants creates “an appearance of impropriety.”
Mr. Curiel’s membership and active role in the San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association, whether or not it creates an actual bias, is enough to disqualify him from presiding over the case, said Victor Williams, a professor at Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law.
“The standard isn’t that one has a personal bias and acknowledges such. That’s not the standard,” he said. “The standard is could there be an appearance of impropriety. That’s the standard.”
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LOLBOOM!
Vote Trump!
The Donald has this all figured out. He will spring the facts on the sleazy liars of the media at the right time and the right place. They will look like fools AGAIN, he will be right AGAIN. He will go up in the polls.
Unfortunately, the MSM/Democrats have been allowed to frame the issues for too long. They’ve conditioned a lot of people to swallow what they hand out uncritically.
Of course, this is one reason I like Trump so much. He doesn’t sit back and take it, and, unlike too many Republican candidates in the past, he doesn’t break out into apologies just because the corrupt media launches an attack.
King James Version (KJV)
22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
In all of the media uproar over the weekend, I never once heard the actual standard explained by anyone (including Republicans with law degrees), nor did I hear the words “la raza”. Newt, Ted, Marco, Paul .... I guess they support La Raza. Will anyone ask them?
“La Raza” = “The Racist”
Unless you have less than two brain cells to rub together, anyone belonging to an organization called “The Race” IS a racist.
Did this “professor” get his degree online? Anyone who went to a real university knows that only white males can be biased. And should know that all white males are biased. This “professor” is obviously racist and needs some diversity training if he’s even allowed to keep his job.
They want Donald to go away too.
I will believe it when his lawyers put their own careers on the line and make a bid for recusal. Although Trump has been talking about a wall for close to a year and the rulings haven’t been particularly unfavorable to one side or the other as far as I can tell.
The problem is that Trump’s actual words are inartful. He did not cite Judge’s associations as basis for prejudice. Further, even if Judge is possessed with the appearance of impropriety, he must acknowledge it and recuse himself.
If be fails to do so, Trump’s lawyers must make a timely motion to the judge to recuse himself and if judge then fails to do so a hearing must be held.
Well I am glad to see this but common sense(we do still have common sense?) would dictate that any member of a political/lobbying race groups is going to be racial by definition.
Time to either disband all these race groups or whites get their own.
The Race, not La Raza, we should not help them obfuscate their racism.
I think most normal people recognized that the brouhaha was not about Trumps bias, but the judge’s.
I also think most here will admit Trump was not articulate enough in voicing his concerns and at this point, he absolutely has to be.
The problem is, Trump is a threat to the Washington ruling class of both parties. They will comb though every phrase and word he utters in order find that word or phrase they can use against him.
They are as vicious as an old she coon in their defense of their power and money.
If they call themselves “La Raza”, meaning “The Race”, what else are they but racists?
Mitch McConnell can stick that “Trump needs to get back on script” crap where the sun doesn’t shine.
Haha....the judge/MSMedia/Satanists trying to differentiate between the two La Raza’s is like someone trying to explain that their swastika tattoo is really a tattoo of the Mayan/Aztec swastika....
You are exactly right, if he had framed it that way from the start, most of this uproar would have been seen for exactly what it is, to distract people from the scenes of Mexican flag waving, American flag burning howling mobs attacking Trump supporters.
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