Trump University Case: Who Is Federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel?

Trump University Case: Who Is Federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel?

by Erik Ortiz

Donald Trump has branded him a "hater," "very hostile" and "Mexican."

U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who's presiding over two of the three lawsuits against Trump University in San Diego, is clearly now in the cross hairs of the bombastic presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

But Curiel is no stranger to being targeted — and in the 1990s he was even reportedly on the hit list of a Mexican drug cartel.
Judge Gonzalo Curiel US District Court Southern District of California

On the campaign trail last Friday, Trump lobbed a number of verbal assaults against Curiel, whom Trump slammed for his handling of the case in which his namesake online school is accused of defrauding students.

"The judge was appointed by Barack Obama," Trump told a campaign rally on the same day as a hearing in the case. "I mean frankly, he should recuse himself because he's given us ruling after ruling after ruling, negative, negative, negative."

The judge appeared to take a swipe at Trump that same day by ordering internal Trump University documents to be released as part of a class-action lawsuit. (He is prevented by a judicial code of conduct from responding publicly to the verbal attacks.)

In deciding to release the documents, Curiel simply noted that Trump "has placed the integrity of these court proceedings at issue."

It's a move that will likely keep Curiel at odds with Trump. In fact on Thursday, Trump told The Wall Street Journal that he believes the judge has an "inherent conflict of interest" simply because of his Mexican heritage and the candidate's stated plan to build a wall on the southern border.

Here's what else is known about the veteran jurist:

He's the son of immigrants.

Curiel was born in East Chicago, Indiana, in 1953, according to the Federal Judicial Center.

During a Senate confirmation hearing in 2012 regarding his appointment as a U.S. District judge, Curiel was described as the son of Mexican immigrants, whose parents came to the United States with an elementary school education.

"My parents came here from Mexico with a dream of providing their children opportunities and they've been able to do that with the opportunities that this country has to offer," Curiel told the Senate committee.

Trump had referred to Curiel as "Mexican" last week — a description that some Latinos say was meant to be disparaging.
He worked his way up to a judgeship.

After earning his law degree from Indiana University in 1979, Curiel spent the next 10 years in private practice in Indiana and California.

He then served as an assistant U.S. attorney in California's Southern District, and worked in the Narcotics Enforcement Section before he was appointed in 2006 by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as a San Diego Superior Court judge.

He oversaw domestic violence cases as well as family court and civil cases.

In 2011, Obama first nominated him to a district judgeship representing the Southern California district in San Diego. He was confirmed the following year by the Senate. He tried over 300 cases at that point, mostly in front of a federal criminal jury.

Related: Latinos Blast Trump for His 'Mexican' Judge Comments

Before his nomination, he was lauded for his years on the bench.

"He comes to us, in short, as a nominee with impressive — indeed, extraordinary — record of experience, public service, and I look forward to his swift confirmation," Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said at the confirmation hearing.

Curiel is now one of about 124 Hispanic judges on a federal court, according to the Federal Judicial Center.

The Hispanic National Bar Association has come to Curiel's defense with Trump's latest comments.

"Donald Trump continues to belligerently inject racial bias and divisive politics into his legal battles over the now-defunct Trump University," association President Robert T. Maldonado said in a statement Wednesday. "It shows a dangerous disregard and disrespect for separate and coequal branches of government."
He has described his philosophy as a judge as one that follows precedent.

During his confirmation hearing in 2012, he told the Senate: "As a trial judge I recognize that I'm not there to make the law, I'm not there to interpret the law, I'm there to follow the law as established by the precedent of our Supreme Court."

He said that if he were confirmed as a District Court judge, he would be bound by the opinions of the Circuit Court and the Supreme Court.

"I've done that in terms of following precedent in my present position, and I would be in a position to continue to do that," he said, according to a transcript of the hearing.
He was targeted by the Tijuana drug cartel.

When Curiel was part of Narcotics Enforcement, he helped to bring down the Mexican criminal organization run by Benjamín Arellano Félix, who was arrested in 2002 and convicted of running a violent and deadly drug cartel between the U.S. and Mexico.

Before Félix's arrest, the Los Angeles Times reported that Curiel had been a possible target by the cartel when a top lieutenant was arrested and claimed in a bugged conversation that he was given the go-ahead to assassinate the U.S. prosecutor.

Curiel, who was involved in the extradition of cartel henchmen, was reportedly placed under tight security.

In discussing the case with The New York Times in 2002, Curiel didn't mention the threats against him, and said that it was useful that he and other prosecutors were of Mexican descent and could speak Spanish.

"When it comes down to it, this involves the country of our parents," Curiel told the newspaper.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016...curiel-n584096

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In discussing the case with The New York Times in 2002, Curiel didn't mention the threats against him, and said that it was useful that he and other prosecutors were of Mexican descent and could speak Spanish.

"When it comes down to it, this involves the country of our parents," Curiel told the newspaper.

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And this is the problem, the very problem Trump is addressing and exposing. When US officials place the priority of their job as the "country of our parents" and that country is different than the United States, we have a problem, a very serious problem. We don't hire and pay US officials, judges or otherwise, to put foreign countries interests ahead of ours.

So there is no doubt in my mind that the Judge is biased against Trump and that this is showing up in his rulings. The release of sealed documents and then some effort to try to undo that mistake shows clearly that the Judge is playing Presidential politics in favor of the Democrats over Trump because of his Mexican heritage and the emphasis on the "country of our parents" instead of the United States.

Trump's positions on America First (NOT the country of your parents if different than the US), building the wall (that would keep illegal aliens and drug traffickers many of them from Mexico from pouring into our country), deporting illegal aliens, (many of them from Mexico) will hit at the heart and soul of those working in our government who still to this day put Mexico First ahead of the United States.

For people to compare the Mexico First "heritage" to the Irish celebration of St. Patrick's Day shows a stupidity about whwat is actually going on here. This doesn't mean every Hispanic-American from Mexico feels this way. I don't believe the vast majority support a Mexico First strategy in the United States. However, some do, we know that, it's why our borders are still open, why NAFTA was signed and implemented, why Mexican drug cartels control major sections of over 200 American cities, why we have sanctuary cities, why we have MALDEF, National Council of La Raza, and all types of Hispanic and Mexican business, trade, professional and political organizations that support open borders and free trade treason.

As Trump says, it's time to be "noisy", and I hope that our fellow Americans of Mexican descent will stand up and speak out against those in official positions who dare to put another country's interests ahead of our own because that country is "the country of our parents".

When you think about the prosecution of that drug cartel leader when Curiel was involved as a prosecutor in the Narcotics Enforcement Division, and given his statement as to why he did it "when it comes down to it, this involves the country of our parents", one must wonder what that means.

One must also wonder what the author of this article means when they write this:

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When Curiel was part of Narcotics Enforcement, he helped to bring down the Mexican criminal organization run by Benjamín Arellano Félix, who was arrested in 2002 and convicted of running a violent and deadly drug cartel between the U.S. and Mexico.

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Now look at this about Curiel:

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He was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of California from 1989 to 2002.[2][3][6] While in the Southern District, he served as Deputy Chief (1996-1999) and then Chief (1999-2002) of the Narcotics Enforcement Division.[2][3][6] During his tenure with the Narcotics Enforcement Division, Curiel prosecuted the Arellano Felix cartel in Tijuana, Mexico,[4][5] and was reportedly the subject of an assassination plot connected to the drug cartel.[7][8] He was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Central District of California from 2002 to 2006.[2][3][6]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzalo_P._Curiel

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The U.S. DEA learned that Benjamín's oldest daughter had a very recognizable and rare facial deformity and that she was the "soft spot" in her father's violent life. By tracing her, they found her father.[5] Benjamin was arrested on March 9, 2002 by the Mexican Army in the state of Puebla, Mexico.[8] He had a $2 million USD bounty for his arrest.[5] Authorities are not sure where Arellano's money went, beyond some real estate investments in Tijuana. Mexican officials say it has been invested in U.S. real estate, while their U.S. counterparts say much of it is hidden in cash in Mexico. He was extradited to the United States in April 29, 2011 to face charges of trafficking cocaine into California.[9] On January 4, 2012 Benjamin Arellano Felix pleaded guilty to racketeering and conspiracy to launder money, and was sentenced to 25 years in jail on April 2, 2012.[10] Once that is served, he will be sent back to Mexico to finish another 22 years for a conviction there.[11]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjam...ano_F%C3%A9lix

Felix was captured in Mexico due to information provided by the US DEA. Felix was prosecuted in Mexico. Curiel left the US Attorney's Office in 2006. Felix was extradited to the US for prosecution here in 2011, 5 years AFTER Curiel was no longer involved with the Narcotics Enforcement Division of the US Attorney's Office.

So please explain to me why a Judge who had nothing to do with the arrest in Mexico of Felix in 2002, that was DEA, and nothing to do with the prosecution of Felix in the US which was obviously handled by others since he hadn't been in the US Attorney's office for at least 5 years, is touted by the media as having had something to do with both?

So what warring cartel benefited from the take down of the Tijuana Cartel run by the Felix family?

Oh that's an easy one:

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The Tijuana Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Tijuana) or Arellano-Félix Organization (Spanish: Cártel Arellano Félix - CAF) is now a small Mexican drug cartel based in Tijuana. The cartel once was described as "one of the biggest and most violent criminal groups in Mexico"[4] however since the 2006 Sinaloa Cartel incursion in Baja California and the fall of the Arellano-Félix brothers, the Tijuana Cartel has been reduced to a small group of scattered cells.[5]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tijuana_Cartel

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The Sinaloa Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Sinaloa or CDS)[15] is an international drug trafficking, money laundering, and organized crime syndicate.[16] Established during the mid-1980s,[17] the Sinaloa Cartel is based primarily in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa,[18] with operations in the Mexican states of Baja California, Durango, Sonora, and Chihuahua.[19][20] The cartel is also known as the Guzmán-Loera Organization and the Pacific Cartel, the latter due to the coast of Mexico from which it originated. The cartel has also been called the Federation and the Blood Alliance.[19][21][22][23] The 'Federation' was partially splintered when the Beltrán-Leyva brothers broke apart from the Sinaloa Cartel.[24]

The United States Intelligence Community considers the Sinaloa Cartel "the most powerful drug trafficking organization in the world"[25] and in 2011, the Los Angeles Times called it "Mexico's most powerful organized crime group."[26] The Sinaloa Cartel is associated with the label "Golden Triangle", which refers to the states of Sinaloa, Durango, and Chihuahua. The region is a major producer of Mexican opium and marijuana.[24] According to the U.S. Attorney General, the Sinaloa Cartel is responsible for importing into the United States and distributing nearly 200 tons of cocaine and large amounts of heroin between 1990 and 2008.[27] According to the National Drug Intelligence Center, within the U.S. the Sinaloa Cartel is primarily involved in the distribution of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, marijuana and MDMA.[28]

As of 2015, the Sinaloa Cartel is the most active drug cartel involved in smuggling illicit drugs into the United States and trafficking them throughout the United States.[29]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinaloa_Cartel

So, it would appear that the beneficiaries of Curiel's "country of our parents" effort, whatever that was which in actuality can't be documented, was the Sinoloa Cartel that was competing with the Felix run Tijuana Cartel.

None of this "whatever" is really of any benefit to the United States or the American People. Our borders are wide open, drug sales grow with the population as do other border-related crimes right along with crimes throughout the country as a result of both illegal immigration and foreign drug cartels. The only things that change is the amount of bribes to keep it all flowing and who gets the money.

So someone in our "justice system" decided to take out the Felix-run Tijuana Cartel to create a larger more violent, dangerous and richer Guzman-run Sinaloa Cartel spreading more money around here in bribes while increasing the money taken out of our economy for the "country of our parents".

I'd say "well done, mission accomplished."

We all need to remember this: We are in our Period of Ironies and Opposites. A smoke and mirrors hit job on the American People is well underway and Trump is the only one who will help expose it.

I believe I've read in several places that he's also a card carrying member of LaRaza

O nominated a la raza judge * senate ok'd it

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In 2011, Obama first nominated him to a district judgeship representing the Southern California district in San Diego. He was confirmed the following year by the Senate

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what kind of double talk is this?

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La Raza Lawyers of San Diego is not a local chapter of the national organization

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and take offense to the literal translation of the organization’s name.

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Judge Presiding Over Trump University Case Is Member Of La Raza Lawyers Group

Alex Pfeiffer
5:32 PM 06/01/2016

United States District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel, the man presiding over the class-action lawsuit against Trump University, is a member of the La Raza Lawyers of San Diego and oversaw the gift of a law school scholarship to an illegal alien.

In his 2011 judicial questionnaire to become a federal judge, Curiel revealed his history with La Raza. GotNews.com originally reported this Tuesday, and The Daily Caller has independently verified.

Curiel lists “La Raza Lawyers of San Diego” as a legal association he has been a part of in the questionnaire. Curiel’s office at the United States District Court for the Southern District of California confirmed to TheDC the judge’s membership in the group.

Curiel reveals more ties to the group in his questionnaire. He has spoken at two receptions held by La Raza Lawyers of San Diego, the most recent being in 2011. Last year, the group also held a reception for Curiel. The description of the event says, “This year we are proud to be honoring Judge Gonzalo Curielat our reception and recognizing him for his leadership and support to the community and to our Association!”

In addition, Curiel served on the selection committee in 2014 for the La Raza Lawyers of San Diego Scholarship Fund. Six of seven of the recipients of these scholarships ranging from $1500 to $1600 were born in Central America. One of them, Ricardo Elorza, described himself as “undocumented.”

Donald Trump has been critical of Curiel, calling him a “hater” over the weekend. “The judge was appointed by Barack Obama, federal judge. Frankly, he should recuse himself because he’s given us ruling after ruling after ruling, negative, negative, negative,” Trump said.

“What happens is the judge, who happens to be, we believe, Mexican, which is great. I think that’s fine,” Trump added.

“Our organization has not been involved in organizing any of the anti-Trump rallies, much less encouraged our members or anyone to participate in any illegal activity,” La Raza Lawyers of San Diego told TheDC in a statement Wednesday. “We help empower Latino attorneys, judges and law students, and provide services to the greater local Latino community.”

The National Council of La Raza is the largest Hispanic advocacy group in the nation and has taken a strong stance against Trump. They previously called Saturday Night Live a platform for “hate” for inviting on the New York businessman. La Raza translates to “the race” in English.

La Raza Lawyers of San Diego is not a local chapter of the national organization and take offense to the literal translation of the organization’s name. “Translating our name as ‘the race’ is not only inaccurate, it is factually incorrect. ‘Hispanic’ is an ethnicity, not a race. As anyone who has ever met a Dominican American, Mexican American, or Spanish American can attest, Hispanics can be and are members of any and all races,” the group writes on its website.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/01/ju...roup/?AID=7236

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“Our organization has not been involved in organizing any of the anti-Trump rallies, much less encouraged our members or anyone to participate in any illegal activity,” La Raza Lawyers of San Diego told TheDC in a statement Wednesday. “We help empower Latino attorneys, judges and law students, and provide services to the greater local Latino community.”

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What does that mean to "empower Latino attorneys, judges and law students, and provide services to the greater local Latino community"? What does that mean? Why are you "empowering" Latino attorneys, judges and law students? What are you doing to "empower" them?

Empower: em·pow·er
əmˈpou(ə)r/
verb
verb: empower; 3rd person present: empowers; past tense: empowered; past participle: empowered; gerund or present participle: empowering

give (someone) the authority or power to do something.

What do Latino attorneys, judges and law students need your organization to gain the authority or power to do that any other attorney, judge or law student doesn't do?

Empowering by Mexican heritage or Latino ethnicity or as an Hispanic is selective empowerment for a special group. This type of activity should be frowned upon. It's a promotion based on parents and grandparents and home countries in foreign lands, and it's exclusive and elitist and the very opposite of what we're trying to strive for in our United States. We should not have judges for example who want to cling to some foreign country identity, who states about a DEA assisted arrest of a Mexican drug dealer in Mexico "what it comes down to is, this is the country of our parents." We don't want people clinging to their old "roots" in another country when they are here in our country living the good life by choice.

What they are doing is tribal and primitive. We don't want judges, lawyers or law students with tribal identities and the primitive yearnings of whatever in another country.

Wake Up People. You can not be an American and something else also. You have to be an American period. I can not imagine thinking of myself as English American or Irish American or Scottish American. We are Americans Only. I've never once pined for Ireland or England or Scotland. Never even wanted to go there but did visit England because during our trip to Europe we landed in London and the food is as awful as we'd heard it to be. It was welcome relief to get to France, Greece and Italy where the food was out of this world delicious.

Mexican heritage? What does that mean anyway? Proud Mexican? Really? Then why did your parents leave it? Why do millions of illegal aliens pour over our borders looking for a job and welfare handouts if Mexico is so wonderful? And perhaps no one told you, if you have a US passport you can go back to Proud Mexico, to your "roots", to the "country of your parents" any day of the week and twice on Sunday and stay there.

There should be no federal judge nor member of the US Bar Association pining away for the the "country of their parents" or "their roots" or exhibit more pride in their tribal history than the pride they should be feeling as American Citizens of the United States of America.

Sorry, but I'm fed up with all this ethnic tribal bull from people putting foreign countries ahead of their own nation. And that's what is happening. That's the sad, dark and dangerous truth of this "ethnic" matter.

Just look at the TRIBAL wars all over the world. 3rd world breeding cesspools of barbarians fighting and raping.

AMERICAN'S FOR TRUMP!

Meet The Pro-Illegal Immigrant Groups The La Raza Lawyers Of San Diego Consider Part Of Their ‘Community’

Posted By Alex Pfeiffer On 2:26 PM 06/06/2016

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The San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association (SDLRLA), the group which Trump University lawsuit Judge Gonzalo Curiel is a member of, considers various pro-illegal immigrant organizations as part of its “community.”

The SDLRLA’s website includes a side-panel on their site titled “Community” which includes links to a variety of groups, including the National Council of La Raza.

“Please note, the San Diego Lawyers Association is not affiliated with the National La Raza Council,” the president of the SDLRLA, Luis O. Osuna, told The Daily Caller in a statement. However, this link is not the only connection between the SDLRLA and the National Council of La Raza. The San Diego previously publicized a La Raza announcement in 2012 about gay marriage.

The SDLRLA is also an affiliate of the Hispanic National Bar Association. The former president of this group, Rafael Santiago, was on the board of the National Council of La Raza. La Raza views itself as a non-radical Latino advocacy group, but Hispanic civil rights leader Cesar Chavez called the movement “anti-gringo.”

“I hear more and more Mexicans talking about la raza—to build up their pride, you know,” Chavez said, according to a 1969 New Yorker profile. “Some people don’t look at it as racism, but when you say ‘la raza,’ you are saying an anti-gringo thing, and it won’t stop there.”

Donald Trump has come out strongly against Judge Curiel saying he can’t be impartial because of his Mexican heritage. Likewise, the National Council of La Raza has come out strongly against Trump. The group’s president has previously accused Trump of “bigotry.” The NCLR has also previously called President Barack Obama “deporter-in-chief.”

However, the NCLR is not the only group the San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association associates with that takes issues with Trump and his policies. Another group linked as part of the SDLRLA’s community is Reality Changers, which provides scholarships to low-income youth, some of which are illegal immigrants. It was previously reported by TheDC that Judge Curiel was on a selection committee that gave a scholarship to an illegal alien.

MANA de San Diego is also listed on the community page of the SDLRLA and likewise to Reality Changers they offer scholarships to illegal immigrant youth. Another group in the “community” is MALDEF. MALDEF previously spearheaded a lawsuit against several colleges for denying admission to illegal aliens.

Alliance San Diego is likewise linked to by the SDLRLA and a recent post on their site is, “Latinos allege excessive policing after Trump protests.” Alliance San Diego has come out strongly in support of Obama’s executive actions providing amnesty.

Another group that SDLRLA considers part of their community is Border Angels. The founder of Border Angels opposed the most recent immigration reform bill, Gang of Eight, because “it is not humane, as it would double the size of the Border Patrol and double the size of the wall.”

San Diego Dream Team is another organization linked to the SDLRLA. The group recently tweeted out their displeasure with deportation raids from the Obama administration. “San Diego will NOT stand for hate, militarization of our communities/separation of families#StopTheHate #HereToStay,” the group wrote on May 27.

The SDLRLA has not returned comment to TheDC’s inquiry of the significance of being featured on the “community” panel.

Previously, Curiel was honored by the SDLRLA for his “leadership and support to the community.”

http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/06/me...eir-community/

June 6, 2016
BY EMILY FLITTER

Donald Trump's attacks on a federal judge of Mexican heritage have ignited hundreds of postings on social media about an advocacy group for Latinos that some Trump supporters are calling a terrorist organization.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has said that U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, an Indiana native whose parents are Mexican immigrants, is making unfair rulings against him as the presiding judge in a class-action lawsuit over Trump University because of his plans to crack down on illegal immigration, including a promise to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

As evidence of what they say is Curiel's bias, Trump and some of his supporters have pointed to the judge's membership in La Raza Lawyers of San Diego, a local group for Hispanic lawyers that is affiliated with the Hispanic National Bar Association.

Some Trump supporters have incorrectly linked La Raza Lawyers to the National Council of La Raza, a 50-year-old civil rights group that has been strongly critical of Trump's proposals on immigration, as well as his idea to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States.

The NCLR's non-profit designation bars it from engaging in political campaigns, and the group's website describes it as a "nonpartisan voice for Latinos."

A conservative blog, GotNews.com, first noted Curiel's membership in the lawyer's group, which it identified simply as "La Raza," on May 31. A day later, another conservative website, The Daily Caller, made a link to the NCLR.

After the NCLR was first named, Trump fans on Twitter began attacking it. "Judge #TrumpHater #GonzaloCuriel is a member of the #TERRORIST group #LaRazza #BANLaRazza #GonzaloCuriel #RESIGN," wrote a user @WillysBaldSpot, whose profile describes her as a Trump supporter.

"I would never have known the "La Raza" organization existed without Trump's controversial comments. #genius," wrote @asamjulian, another self-proclaimed Trump fan.

TRUMP: "HE'S GOT BIAS"

Trump on Sunday repeated his attack on Curiel in an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation."

"He's a member of a club or society very strongly pro-Mexican, which is all fine. But I say he's got bias," Trump said in the interview.

"This judge has treated me very unfairly. He's treated me in a hostile manner, and there's something going on," he added.

The words "La Raza" translate from Spanish to mean "the race," which Trump fans cite as proof the NCLR is a group of people who hate anyone who isn't Hispanic.

Lisa Navarrete, an NCLR spokeswoman, rejected that interpretation, saying that "thousands" of groups had names that included "La Raza" as a "nod to our common heritage."

The attacks on the advocacy group are the latest signs of the increasing racial tension in the 2016 presidential race. Critics have said Trump's calls to deport undocumented immigrants and ban Muslims amount to racism. His supporters say he's defending the country from terrorism and violence.

Some supporters of the New York businessman have blamed the NCLR for the violent clashes between anti-Trump protesters and Trump fans at a San Jose, California, rally last week.

"Thank you La Raza for putting California into play for Trump," wrote another supporter, @magnifier661. "Your violent fascism turned off the voting class #MAGA (a hashtag meaning Make America Great Again)."

The NCLR has been criticized in the past for its leaders' statements on immigration - the group supports a path to citizenship for people who entered the United States illegally - but Navarrete said it has never before attracted the ire of a presidential candidate.

Over the past week, she said, she and other NCLR officials have been calling journalists and pundits they believe are mischaracterizing the group.

"We've been doing a lot of correcting the media and making sure they're not repeating what supporters of Mr. Trump are saying," she said.

"We're sitting around arguing the minutiae of banking regulation, not running around in hoods.'"

Hope Hicks, Trump's spokeswoman, declined to comment.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...-idUSKCN0YS2BV

Frankly I would like to see this subject go away and it should soon....it isn't that important considering the important issues that should be focused on.

There you go! Great article Jean. There is the source of the bias, just like Trump said. Because Curiel is Mexican like the Soprano's are Italian, unlike the Sopranos, Curiel cares more about Mexico than the United States. He's willing to associate, be honored by, be a member of, attend receptions for, serve on committees for special treatment and favors and assistance and services for an "ethnic group", including illegal aliens.

A Federal Judge serving on a committee to award scholarships to illegal aliens in our country in violation of US immigration law.

Unbelievable.

So here comes Mr. Trump, saying NO MORE OF THIS, we're building a wall, we're deporting illegal aliens, and enforcing US immigration law. Here's Judge Curiel, new Judge to take over the Trump U case in California. Then come the bad rulings which Trump and his lawyers feel are unjust, unfair, beyond the pale. There is no question at all about the rightness of Trump questioning the Judge's "ethnicity" as a cause for the unjust rulings, not because he's Mexican alone, but because he's of Mexican heritage with a pro-Mexico, pro-illegal alien attitude. A STOP TRUMP attempt through the back door of a corrupt judicial system.

Disgusting.

Look, at the end of the day, Trump who tells us he is worth $10B is involved in a $5M lawsuit that should have no business in his campaign. He is wasting time and energy. He should not even be dealing with his business at this point in the campaign. His focus should be on the $50T economy he will eventually preside over should he win. I am so disgusted he has taken the bait and embroiled himself in this trivial matter. He is losing so much here by chasing pennies instead of dollars. This has now affected many GOP supporters who have outright separated themselves from this statement.

Enough Trump. Let it go. Let your lawyers try the case. Get back to the issues and build out your cabinet so we know you are for real. This is so bad for his focus and momentum. Let Ivanca take control of this and get back to the campaign.

What he's done is actually expose a terrible undercurrent of why we have open borders, illegal immigration, DACA, DAPA and massive excess legal immigration. These organizations like "La Raza Lawyers" which is a nationwide effort and the Hispanic National Bar Association also a national organization are like National Council of La Raza and part of the secret-force subterfuge working against US and US immigration law enforcement. When their people like the San Jose Mayor and San Jose Police Chief stand down and let their rioters attack Americans, I'm sorry, but this is an important issue that needs discussion, conversation and action to stop.

For the Republicans who in my opinion made terrible mistakes in their own judgment condemning Trump who was exposing the problem before they even listened to the entire interview, before they even spoke to him about it, before they even did their own research on the subject .... just shows how stupid, incompetent and irresponsible they are.

So what if Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham and even Newt Gingrich want to condemn or distance from what they are told by media that Trump said? Are these our friends? No, they are not. They are amnesty supporters and pro-illegal immigration.

Every time Trump makes a controversial statement to expose a problem, everyone says "OH NO, NOT AGAIN", but remember my dear friends, Donald Trump isn't in this race for politics as usual, he is in this race for President to solve problems, and his lawsuit in California, the biggest hotbed of illegal immigration in the country, has exposed another element and cause of why we have this problem of illegal immigration. Now because he exposed the La Raza Lawyers thing that even we didn't know about, we find out that it's not just lawyers, it's police chiefs and judges and mayors and many many more, who secure positions of power and authority through the "ethnic" promotions of these organizations, all who hate Trump, simply because of his position against illegal immigration and his goal of building the wall, deporting illegal aliens and actually enforcing US immigration law to solve the problem.

When you secure positions of power and authority like this based on "ethnic" preference, you owe the organizations that helped fund and lobby your election, appointment or profession, a debt to support their cause which is ethnic-targeted illegal immigration.

Your point is well taken, but T was trying his trivial court case in public and it backfired badly.

I am surprised followers don't even see the parallels between this statement about the judges heritage and the statement made to Chris Matthews regarding abortion. The San Jose Mayor and Police Chief are not related to this. That is a separate issue and needs to be addressed by the AG (fat chance). Trump tried to try his case in the public and did not carefully weigh his words. He can't keep doing this every time he makes a mistake. He has undone some of the uniting that has taken place. He has drained valuable energy and time from his message. If this is how he is going to run the country, we are not going to accomplish much. You are putting way to much faith into his abilities as a politician. Politics is about building consensus, studying policies and positions and about selecting and allowing others to manage the complex structures of each section.

It is not unusual for a Polish, Italian, Irish, etc...to belong to a club with others from that heritage. If Trump feels that the judge is giving him a bad deal because of his positions on Mexicans or the border, there is a much smarter way to cry out loud. No one likes him more than I do, but blind supporters just tolerate and embellish every fault he has. He has learned nothing from his misstatement on abortion with Chris Matthews. That too wasted time and energy. The inside doings of his campaign are once again becoming undone. He used Manafort, like he has used so many others along the way and we will see how this shakes out. Others are not afraid to distance themselves from him or disavow his statements because Trump has behaved as a child.

This had its genesis when T thought he would be cute and not turn over his $1M pledge for veterans until he was called out (bad move). Remember actions speak louder than words.


This is big time now and many things in this country are wrong, but it is not about any of this. It was a trap and T took the bait, hook, line and sinker.

Well, I'm Pro-Choice, so Trump's "misstatements" on the abortion issue didn't bother me at all. This is one of the issues that I completely disagree with Trump on. I don't think the government should be involved in these personal decisions.

Trump wasn't trying the case in the public. The opposition and media were trying to do that. Negative ads all over the place about a private legal matter. Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton and SuperPac after SuperPac hitting Trump all day every day about the Trump U lawsuits. When he's punched, he's going to punch back and punch back hard so when he's in interviews and all they want to talk about is Trump U, then he's going to talk about it and rightly so. When he's asked why he thinks the Judge is biased, he has every right to answer the question as he sees it.

Eyes are now opened on Judge Curiel. Ears are pricked. More news will come out and someone somewhere will print or broadcast it.

And then like everything else, everyone will say "Wow, Trump was right."

You don't get it at all.

Trump was trying his case in public because he was losing and wanted to tie the decisions that have been made so far to the judges Mexican heritage and T's position on the wall.....blah, blah, blah.....enough. The abortion thing was the same, stupid! Not you, the subject. I don't care what your position is, when my candidate takes a "what if" and wants to send women to jail as punishment for having an abortion, he is thinking out loud and getting himself into trouble for no reason. Matthews gave him the bait and he took it. That is the parallel. The democrats just did it again with Trump U.

Trump stood to win nothing by pasting the Mexican heritage on the judge. He should be smart enough to let his lawyers do the dirty work. Why don't you pat the judge on the back for fighting the drug cartel years back. You totally miss it and when you allow the candidate to think he is right when he is wrong, he digs himself deeper into the ditch.

Your ok with me, and I like your commentary a lot, but I completely disagree with Trump on how he has handled a few things like this in particular. Wasting time, precious time not talking about what is important and disqualifying Hillary everyday.

I respect so many of your positions, but sometimes I think you don't tell the truth about Trump because you think you are turning against him or being disloyal. We are still going to vote for him even though there are times when he opens his mouth only to change feet......Trump promises not to talk about this anymore. Let's do the same.

We'll just have to disagree on this issue, joe s. But I think you'll find in the coming days that Trump was right about Curiel and had every right to say so when he was asked. It wasn't Trump spending the time on the issue, it was the media. But that's okay. Eyes are opened, ears are pricked so it's not over for Curiel.

As to the drug cartels someone is claiming Curiel went after? I wrote a piece on that already. He didn't arrest any drug cartel leader. He didn't prosecute any drug cartel leader. Those are the facts. The media is claiming he arrested and prosecuted the leader of the Tijuana Cartel, Arellano Felix, yet, that's not the case. Felix was arrested in Pueblo, Mexico by Mexican Authorities on information provided by the US DEA who tracked his sister which led to the tip to Mexican authorities who made the arrest in 2002. Felix was prosecuted in Mexico by Mexican authorities and sentenced to 22 years. Felix was years later extradited to the United States in 2011 and prosecuted here for crimes in the US and sentenced to 25 years after which he will be returned to Mexico and finish his Mexican sentence there. But, Curiel was no longer with the US Attorney's Office in 2011, he left that office in 2006.

So I'm not going to take anything away from what he did when he was in charge of the Narcotics Division of the US Attorney's Office, but he was not involved in the actual events that led to the arrest of this drug lord named Felix, that was a DEA agent, and he was not involved in the prosecution of this drug lord, because the drug lord was prosecuted in Mexico by Mexican authorities for his crimes there and prosecuted in the US more than 5 years AFTER Curiel had left the US attorney's office.

The Felix Tijuana Cartel was competing with the Sinaloa Cartel in Baja, California. When the Tijuana Cartel was weakened with the Mexican arrests, the Sinaloa Cartel took over. The Sinaloa Cartel is El Chapo's cartel.

But I will say this, any government official involved with trying to stop the drug cartels would support building a wall to restrict both the flow of drugs across the borders along with the illegal aliens carrying them and coming here to run the operation.

So it's not rocket science to see all the government officials involved with La Raza Lawyers boycotting Trump and other La Raza officials telling Trump to shove his wall up his ass.

You see the incongruity, right? It's inexplicable for someone who wants notoriety as a drug cartel fighter to belong to a Bar Association boycotting Trump products because he wants to build a wall and stop illegal immigration. Well, of course there is ONE explanation and that is they're all on the take with the cartels. Of course one might choose to work against one cartel to favor another which is what was happening between the Felix and Guzman cartels. Guzman's (El Chapo) Sinaloa Cartel took off like a rocket with the diminishing of the Tijuana Cartel. The Sinaloa Cartel became the largest strongest cartel at the time operating in the United States, operating out of Baja, California.

I don't trust most of these officials because the problem of illegal immigration and the drug cartel behind it grows every year no matter what they say they are doing to stop it. Fencing a child can climb over? Border cameras that don't work? Amnesty proposals in Congress year after year after year? DACA, DAPA, driver's licenses, in-state tuition, scholarships to college, EITC payments?

Why would someone claim Curiel arrested and prosecuted Felix when he did neither one? Because it sounds good when he's vying for a Judgeship appointment? Who knows. The fact is Curiel is a member of two organizations who hate Trump because he wants to build a wall, deport illegal aliens and enforce US immigration law, he's a member of La Raza Lawyers and he's a member of the Hispanic National Bar Association. These are not little culture groups that plan a St. Patty's Day Parade or sit around chugging beer and singing Irish songs until they decide to get up on a table and dance a jig or plan Greek Weddings and Festivals or whatever else the Scalia Italians do at their culture events. And maybe Scalia was involved in something more sinister that we don't know about, and maybe the Irish Pub groups were really IRA supporters. I don't know. But this I know, when these groups boycott a Presidential candidate, stand down with rioters attacking that candidates supporters, tell him to shove his wall up his ass, while handing out scholarships to illegal aliens and others based on their "heritage", they are not little "culture groups", these are dangerous subversive anti-American political action groups operating inside our country against our best interest and national security.

And this thing about the threat on the life of Curiel .... that's a "may have" according to the LA Times article written about it in 1997.

http://articles.latimes.com/1997/aug/28/news/mn-26601

Trump issues ultimate final statement on judge. For now.

Colin Campbell June 7, 2016


Donald Trump issued a lengthy statement on Tuesday insisting that his comments about a U.S. judge have been mischaracterized by his critics. The presumptive GOP nominee also said that he does not “intend to comment on this matter any further,” after discussing it at length in multiple interviews.

“It is unfortunate that my comments have been misconstrued as a categorical attack against people of Mexican heritage. I am friends with and employ thousands of people of Mexican and Hispanic descent,” Trump began in the 700-word statement.

Trump sparked an intense backlash last week when he repeatedly argued that Judge Gonzalo Curiel, a U.S.-born jurist of Mexican heritage, should recuse himself from a case involving Trump University. Trump cited his plan to build a massive wall along the Mexican border and said the proposal presented a conflict of interest for Curiel.

“He’s a Mexican. We’re building a wall between here and Mexico,” Trump told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Friday.

Democrats and Republicans widely condemned Trump’s argument. A number of critics, including presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, directly called it “racist.”

“Claiming a person can’t do their job because of their race is sort of like a textbook definition of a racist comment,” Ryan, who recently endorsed Trump, said earlier in the day Tuesday.

But Trump said he was simply bringing up legitimate questions about Curiel’s possible bias as the judge oversees a case involving Trump’s defunct for-profit university. Various lawsuits against Trump University accuse the business of intentionally misleading students. Trump’s own lead lawyer praised an earlier ruling by Curiel in the case.

“Normally, legal issues in a civil case would be heard in a neutral environment,” Trump wrote in his statement. “However, given my unique circumstances as nominee of the Republican Party and the core issues of my campaign that focus on illegal immigration, jobs and unfair trade, I have concerns as to my ability to receive a fair trial.”

He later added: “While this lawsuit should have been dismissed, it is now scheduled for trial in November. I do not intend to comment on this matter any further. With all of the thousands of people who have given the courses such high marks and accolades, we will win this case!”

View Trump’s full statement below:

It is unfortunate that my comments have been misconstrued as a categorical attack against people of Mexican heritage. I am friends with and employ thousands of people of Mexican and Hispanic descent. The American justice system relies on fair and impartial judges. All judges should be held to that standard. I do not feel that one’s heritage makes them incapable of being impartial, but, based on the rulings that I have received in the Trump University civil case, I feel justified in questioning whether I am receiving a fair trial.

Over the past few weeks, I have watched as the media has reported one inaccuracy after another concerning the ongoing litigation involving Trump University. There are several important facts the public should know and that the media has failed to report.

Throughout the litigation my attorneys have continually demonstrated that students who participated in Trump University were provided a substantive, valuable education based upon a curriculum developed by professors from Northwestern University, Columbia Business School, Stanford University and other respected institutions. And, the response from students was overwhelming. Over a five year period, more than 10,000 paying students filled out surveys giving the courses high marks and expressing their overwhelming satisfaction with Trump University’s programs.

For example:
Former student Tarla Makaeff, the original plaintiff in the litigation, not only completed multiple surveys rating Trump University’s three-day seminar “excellent” in every category, but also praised Trump University’s mentorship program in a glowing 5 plus minute video testimonial. When asked “how could Trump University help to meet [her] goals”, she simply stated “[c]ontinue to offer great classes.” Once the plaintiffs’ lawyers realized how disastrous a witness she was, they asked to have her removed from the case. Over my lawyers’ objections, the judge granted the plaintiffs’ motion, but allowed the case to continue.

Art Cohen, a lead plaintiffs in the litigation, completed a survey in which he not only rated Trump University’s three-day seminar “excellent” in virtually every category, but went so far as to indicate that he would “attend another Trump University seminar” and even “recommend Trump University seminars to a friend.” When asked how Trump University could improve the seminar, Mr. Cohen’s only suggestion was to “[h]ave lunch sandwiches brought in” and make the lunch break 45 minutes.

Former student Bob Giullo, who has been critical of Trump University in numerous interviews and negative advertisements from my political opponents, also expressed his satisfaction, rating Trump University’s programs “excellent” in every category. When asked how Trump University could improve its programs, Mr. Giullo simply asked that students be provided “more comfortable chairs.”

Indeed, these are just a few of literally thousands of positive surveys, all of which can be viewed online at www.98percentapproval.com.

For those students who decided that Trump University’s programs were not for them, the company had a generous refund policy, offering a full refund to any student who asked for their money back within 3 days of signing up for a program or by the end of the first day of any multi-day program, whichever came later.

Normally, legal issues in a civil case would be heard in a neutral environment. However, given my unique circumstances as nominee of the Republican Party and the core issues of my campaign that focus on illegal immigration, jobs and unfair trade, I have concerns as to my ability to receive a fair trial.

I am fighting hard to bring jobs back to the United States. Many companies – like Ford, General Motors, Nabisco, Carrier – are moving production to Mexico. Drugs and illegal immigrants are also pouring across our border. This is bad for all Americans, regardless of their heritage.

Due to what I believe are unfair and mistaken rulings in this case and the Judge’s reported associations with certain professional organizations, questions were raised regarding the Obama appointed Judge’s impartiality. It is a fair question. I hope it is not the case.

While this lawsuit should have been dismissed, it is now scheduled for trial in November. I do not intend to comment on this matter any further. With all of the thousands of people who have given the courses such high marks and accolades, we will win this case!

Donald J. Trump

Trump issues ultimate final statement on judge. For now.

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"He's a member of a club or society very strongly pro-Mexican, which is all fine. But I say he's got bias," Trump said in the interview.

"This judge has treated me very unfairly. He's treated me in a hostile manner, and there's something going on," he added.

The words "La Raza" translate from Spanish to mean "the race," which Trump fans cite as proof the NCLR is a group of people who hate anyone who isn't Hispanic.

Lisa Navarrete, an NCLR spokeswoman, rejected that interpretation, saying that "thousands" of groups had names that included "La Raza" as a "nod to our common heritage."

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But Curiel & his group are involved with this..

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The fact is, Judge Curiel, who boasted about his Mexican heritage during his Senate confirmation hearings, and is a member of an activist lawyers group whose mission is to defend Mexican illegal aliens and work to keep them in America, while Donald Trump has spoken out against the invasion of our borders by Mexicans and those from Central America, establishes a bias for Mexicans who have invaded our borders by the judge and puts the judge at odds with Trump's position. This of course gives reasonable cause that the judge's feelings toward Mexicans who have invaded our borders may affect his decisions in Trump's case. To ignore this factor, as Megan Kelly does with absolutely impunity, is an indication of her own unwillingness to accept a reasonable belief.

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“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.”
—Arthur Schopenhauer

This was started by the Democrats and the Press. The last unfair decision by this Judge Curiel was made on the specific argument by the Washington Post that because Donald Trump is a candidate for President the "public had an interest in knowing how Trump ran his business" and despite arguments against the release of these sealed court documents by Trump lawyers, the Judge decided that the rights normally afforded to someone being sued DO NOT APPLY TO A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT.

To do a document dump like this for the Washington Post is without question an unfair ruling stinking to high heaven of bias. The problem with court document dumps like this is they aren't even evidence. The rules of evidence exclude all items not entered into evidence during a trial and subject to testimony, cross examination and rebuttal.

Surely Judge Curiel knows this. Surely the Washington Post knows this. Yet, for some bizarre reason, probably as Trumps says, Trump's positions on illegal immigration, deportation of illegal aliens and enforcing US immigration law resulted in yet another outrageous unheard of ruling by Judge Curiel because of Curiel's involvement in pro-Mexico, pro-illegal alien organizations and platforms.

When the media gangs up with biased judges because someone wants to defend our country, secure our borders, deport illegal aliens, build a wall and enforce US immigration law, we have a problem in this country much broader than Curiel's Mexican heritage. We have major foreign-driven ethnic-based corruption embedded in positions of power and authority financed by drug cartels, La Raza supporters, Amnesty Democrats, Mexico and other foreign interests and governments, and their lap dog media mules like the Washington Post, who all benefit from these tragic policies that are destroying our country and bankrupting our citizens.

Someone suggested the other day that Trump was trying this case in the media because he was losing, no he isn't losing, and no, Trump isn't the one wanting to try this case in the media, it's the media, a corrupt Judge and his La Raza friends and associates who want to try this case in the media. With a document dump like this, there is no way Trump and his companies can get a fair trial.

In fact after the document dump, the Judge issues a new order to try to get some of them back and they weren't even redacted for the protection of personal information.

http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/whoo...ump-u-lawsuit/

These are the actions of a Judge with a "stellar record"? His own current actions prove he's biased, sloppy and has probably resulted in cause for mistrial.

One of the comments to the article agrees:

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Sailor Mike ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ • 4 days ago

Trump's lawyers may be able to get a mistrial as the judge is biased and incompetent as he released info that is prejudiced against defendant. So unfair while Hill's Foundation is untouched.

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Makes one wonder why Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger would appoint a Democrat La Raza-backed lawyer to the Superior Court of San Diego County, traditionally a Republican stronghold, which led to his appointment by Obama as a Federal Judge for this district in California several years later. Then he gets assigned this case in 2014, 4 years into the case? Really?! Oh puleeze.

Why would Arnold make such an appointment to begin with? The housekeeper affair? Around the same time frame.

I knew this pending lawsuit was going to haunt Trump. This was actually one reason I had a hard time getting on board for Trump. The truth is I feel from all my research Trump should lose this case. I don't think that would have made much difference with his supporters.

Now Trump has everyone focusing on Judge Curiel and his Mexican heritage and La Raza instead of the actual facts of the case. That was probably his intent, but I question was it about being President or was it about winning the lawsuit. I question whether he can separate his personal business from the people's business. Whatever his reasoning I think he has hurt himself by taking this stance with Judge Curiel and I am more afraid for our country then ever.

The important thing to remember about lawsuits and trials is that there are no facts of the case until there is a trial, only claims and accusations, no different than a criminal trial. Civil defendants like criminal defendants are innocent until proven guilty beyond either a reasonable doubt or a preponderance of the evidence depending on the court and the state or federal law applicable presented at trial that is subject to sworn testimony, cross-examination, rebuttal and most importantly, the Rules of Evidence. Then a Jury takes it all in after hearing the evidence, the testimony, the cross-examination, the rebuttals and so forth and then they decide during deliberations what are facts, what are lies, what a unproven claims, unsupported premises, and so forth and arrive a a decision regarding financial liability in civil lawsuits.

There's no reason for a candidate for President or even a President to separate his personal business from the people's business. Members of Congress aren't expected to do that, they sit there every day using insider information to enrich themselves playing the stock market, many Governors and other members of our elected politic have assets and businesses. In fact throughout our history, the whole notion of public service was for people who had independent sources of income, assets and businesses to serve in Congress and run for President because they could afford to do so. These were people who understood our economy, who understood how things worked, who weren't in government office to support themselves with big salaries and benefits and become career politicians because it paid better than what they could earn on their own in the real world.

All of our founders were business people. All of our early leaders were business people. The notion that a penniless person can possibly grasp the problems of our country, let alone arrive at the solutions when they can't even support themselves outside of a government paycheck is not one that will benefit our nation, and is in fact so far proving itself to be our demise. When we started raising the salaries of Congress to levels 4 and 5 times that of the average American, and it's still not enough for them, because they don't have anything of their own to support themselves or their lifestyles, we shot ourselves in the foot. People should study that history and see the link between raising salaries of members of Congress with the number of illegal aliens entering the country and the number of factories and jobs leaving our country. It is a stunning parallel.

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Originally Posted by joe s

You don't get it at all.

Trump was trying his case in public because he was losing and wanted to tie the decisions that have been made so far to the judges Mexican heritage and T's position on the wall.....blah, blah, blah.....enough. The abortion thing was the same, stupid! Not you, the subject. I don't care what your position is, when my candidate takes a "what if" and wants to send women to jail as punishment for having an abortion, he is thinking out loud and getting himself into trouble for no reason. Matthews gave him the bait and he took it. That is the parallel. The democrats just did it again with Trump U.

Trump stood to win nothing by pasting the Mexican heritage on the judge. He should be smart enough to let his lawyers do the dirty work. Why don't you pat the judge on the back for fighting the drug cartel years back. You totally miss it and when you allow the candidate to think he is right when he is wrong, he digs himself deeper into the ditch.

Your ok with me, and I like your commentary a lot, but I completely disagree with Trump on how he has handled a few things like this in particular. Wasting time, precious time not talking about what is important and disqualifying Hillary everyday.

I respect so many of your positions, but sometimes I think you don't tell the truth about Trump because you think you are turning against him or being disloyal. We are still going to vote for him even though there are times when he opens his mouth only to change feet......Trump promises not to talk about this anymore. Let's do the same.

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You're dead on about the truth issue. On occasion that does seem to get ignored around here simply because it's not something we're comfortable discussing because it may not always weigh in Trump's favor. Hiding or attempting to cover the truth through acts of deflection and obfuscation isn't doing anyone any favors in the long run. If any candidates has issues it's important that we flesh them out now with honesty and integrity vice paying the price later. Yep, let's go in with our eyes wide open.

Like you said, we're still going to vote Trump. Honestly, I don't care much for Trump as a person, but he is our only alternative at this juncture. It is my view that anyone supporting Hillary Clinton or Gary Johnson (Bernie Sanders is done) is on a suicide mission to complete the destruction of our great nation.

Judy, you are far to biased when it comes to Trump. It actually nauseates me sometimes. I am sure even Trump himself and his advisers disagree with you here. He should not even be involved in his business anymore, period (especially if he wants to win). His remarks were thoughtless and childish at best. He created other problems for himself and his party. That was for his lawyers to deal with, not him. His whole demeanor over the last twenty-four hours contradicts you.

Trump is always right. Trump is going to fix our country. Trump is this. Trump is that....blah, blah, blah....

Look at how you put down that federal judge when he actually did something about the Mexican drug cartel.. I don't care what he did, but he did something and that took guts. It was material because they threatened his life. I understand you very well!

State the facts of the case, the judges decisions and show where he is being unfair or prejudice.

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Judy, you are far to biased when it comes to Trump. It actually nauseates me sometimes. I am sure even Trump himself and his advisers disagree with you here. He should not even be involved in his business anymore, period (especially if he wants to win). His remarks were thoughtless and childish at best. He created other problems for himself and his party. That was for his lawyers to deal with, not him. His whole demeanor over the last twenty-four hours contradicts you.

Trump is always right. Trump is going to fix our country. Trump is this. Trump is that....blah, blah, blah....

Look at how you put down that federal judge when he actually did something about the Mexican drug cartel.. I don't care what he did, but he did something and that took guts. It was material because they threatened his life. I understand you very well!

State the facts of the case, the judges decisions and show where he is being unfair or prejudice.

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Thank you, Joe.

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Originally Posted by joe s

Judy, you are far to biased when it comes to Trump. It actually nauseates me sometimes. I am sure even Trump himself and his advisers disagree with you here. He should not even be involved in his business anymore, period (especially if he wants to win). His remarks were thoughtless and childish at best. He created other problems for himself and his party. That was for his lawyers to deal with, not him. His whole demeanor over the last twenty-four hours contradicts you.

Trump is always right. Trump is going to fix our country. Trump is this. Trump is that....blah, blah, blah....

Look at how you put down that federal judge when he actually did something about the Mexican drug cartel.. I don't care what he did, but he did something and that took guts. It was material because they threatened his life. I understand you very well!

State the facts of the case, the judges decisions and show where he is being unfair or prejudice.

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Oh brother.

:roll:

Justice Sotomayor’s Comments Resurface…Could Prove Trump Was Right To Call Out Judge

Joe Saunders June 8, 2016 at 3:10pm

Consistent logic has never been a liberal strongpoint, and the current controversy over the judge in the Trump University lawsuits is making that clearer than ever.

Democrats and left-loving media pundits in an uproar over Donald Trump’s criticism of the Hispanic judge overseeing legal action against the presumptive Republican presidential nominee are conveniently forgetting their own history when it comes to judicial appointments — and Hispanic judges.

As Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley pointed out in an interview Wednesday, one of the Supreme Court justices appointed by progressive hero Barack Obama has said pretty much the same thing Trump is saying now — but liberals lapped it up.

Speaking with his home state paper, the Des Moines Register, the veteran Republican and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee noted that Trump’s criticism of District Judge Gonzalo Curiel for allegedly allowing his Mexican heritage to color his rulings in the Trump University lawsuits was really not much different from an argument then-U.S. Appeals Court Judge Sonya Sotomayor made for years about the approach a Hispanic woman takes to the judicial job.

In numerous formal speeches prior to her appointment to the high court in 2009, Sotomayor spoke about the superior wisdom her ethnic heritage had bestowed upon her when it comes to matters of law and making sure justice is served.

That, Grassley said, was not logically different from Trump’s claim that Judge Curiel was allowing his Mexican heritage to influence his legal judgments.

As Grassley told the Register:

“I think that you don’t have any more trouble with what Trump said than when Sotomayor said that — when she was found saying in speeches that, quote, ‘A wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male.’ I don’t hear any criticism of that sort of comment by a justice of the Supreme Court.”

Actually, there was a fair amount of criticism at the time, it just wasn’t from the same liberal politicians who are leading the criticism of Trump today. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, for instance, put it plainly when he called Sotomayor’s “wise Latina” observation naked racism, according to Politico.

Unfortunately, Grassley backed away from his comments later Wednesday — possibly under pressure for using pure logic in a political discussion — but that doesn’t change the validity of the point.

In fact, it had already been brought up by, among others, Eric Bolling on Fox News’ “The Five,” and National Review’s Victor Davis Hanson.

Liberals loved it when a “wise Latina” like Sotomayor bragged about how her heritage could allow her to reach a “better conclusion” than a white male on a point of law — stating it as a matter of common sense.

When Trump makes virtually the same argument, he’s not hailed as a “wise Anglo,” he’s branded as a racist.

Gingrich, to his credit, slammed both Sotomayor in 2009 and Trump’s statements about Curiel this week.

Liberals should try the same consistency some time.

Conservatives on social media had a field day with the comparison, while liberals said there was absolutely no equivalence between the two. That’s what they always say when they’re contradicting themselves.

Justice Sotomayor: Ethnicity ‘May And Will Make A Difference In Judging’ https://t.co/iCJIyL1XC4 via @dailycaller
— Katie Frates (@TheWorldsFrates) June 8, 2016

.@TheWorldsFrates@DailyCaller Oh surprise! Could this be what Trump was referring to. We think so. You be the judge.
— Bit Veracity (@bitveracity) June 8, 2016

Either BOTH are right or both are wrong. You can’t judge Trump’s comments as racist and then deem Sotomayor’s fair. https://t.co/YaMUOE4KaU
— Eric Bolling (@ericbolling) June 8, 2016

@ericbolling@Mediaite Libs can always have it both ways, Eric. They double talk better than just about anything else, except lie ��
— 1.20.2017 #MAGA (@Speshlk0510) June 8, 2016

Libs don’t think it’s lying. They just call it interpreting the same facts differently.

http://www.tpnn.com/2016/06/08/bombs...all-out-judge/

This judge should NOT be handling this case either as he is a clinton supporter........obvious!
Law Firm Behind Trump University Lawsuit Gave Big Money to the Clintons

by Rachel Stockman | 3:56 pm, May 31st, 2016


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Donald Trump has undoubtedly made the class action lawsuit against Trump University a campaign issue. For the last several days,he has been on a tear against federal Judge Gonzolo Curiel who is overseeing one of the class action lawsuits against Trump University. In the lawsuit, former students claim that the University and Trump violated federal law by luring them to sign up with false promises and then defrauded them once they handed over their checks.

LawNewz.com discovered that when it comes to politics, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, the law firm behind the class action lawsuit, is not exactly neutral either. Our analysis, using data first compiled by The Washington Post, found that Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd paid the Clintons a total of $675,000 in fees for speeches since 2009. Hillary Clinton gave a $225,000 speech at the law firm as recently as September 4, 2014. Bill Clinton also gave a speech for the same fee back in 2013, and another one in 2009 before the firm had been renamed (they used to be called Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP). In fact, of the five law firms that paid for the Clintons to speak over the last few years, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd paid out the most money.

Court records indicate 9 attorneys from Robbins Geller are listed as representing Art Cohen and the other former Trump University students in the class action lawsuit (there are three attorneys from another law firm as well). A review of the case’s docket reveals that the Robbins Geller attorneys have aggressively pursued the lawsuit, pushed for Trump to testify and for the trial to begin before the November 2016 election. However, it is also worth noting that the lawsuit was filed in 2013, well before Trump declared he was running for President.

“These are real people who spent a significant amount of money. This has impacted their lives. That does not turn on the election or the election outcome,” Robbins Geller lawyer Jason Forge said about the case. A judge ultimately decided that the trial should begin sometime after the election.

In addition, in the midst of the litigation, one of the Robbins Geller attorneys, Patrick Coughlin, who is also ‘of counsel’ at the law firm, maxed out his donations to Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Records maintained by the Federal Election Commission indicate that Coughlin has been a longtime financial supporter of both the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton. In February, he donated $5,400 to her campaign.

“No rule prevents a lawyer from donating to a candidate or paying a prospective candidate for speeches and also representing a client against her opponent. The story is interesting because everything about Trump appears now to be interesting, but there is no problem under the lawyer ethics rules,” NYU law professor Stephen Gillers told LawNewz.com. Gillers is an expert on legal ethics.

Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd is a high profile law firm, based out of San Diego, with considerable resources. The lawsuit against Trump was filed in the Southern District of California (San Diego) back in 2013. The firm is frequently involved in multi-million dollar complex litigation. In 2008, they obtained a $7.2 billion settlement for Enron shareholders as part of a massive federal class action lawsuit.

LawNewz.com reached out by phone and email to attorneys at Robbins Geller for comment, but have not heard back.

http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/excl...-the-clintons/

Judge Unseals Trump University Docs, Accidentally Reveals THIS About Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton may want to reconsider attacking Donald Trump about the legitimacy and success of Trump University – or risk exposing a possible backdoor deal to manipulate the lawsuit.

When the federal judged ruled against The GOP unofficial nominee in the Trump University case, he did something else extremely noteworthy… Some of the Trump University documents released revealed some very close Clinton friends, and possibly donors, are connected to Donald Trump lawsuit, according to the Allen B. West website.

One of the law firms representing the plaintiffs in the Trump University lawsuit, who were appointed by the judge hearing the case, have massive financial ties to Hillary Clinton and the former president.

Liberal pundits and media talking heads mocked Trump when he accused the attorneys as being “very hostile” and biased “haters” but it now appears there is ample evidence to support his claims of unfairness in the case.

The law firm Robbins Geller was appointed to represent the Donald Trump plaintiff by federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel.

Darren Robbins, Robbins Geller chairman, donated $2,700 to Hillary’s campaign but the firm itself has been tied into more than $500,000 in donations to Clinton.

Judge Gonzalo Curiel has been heralded by La Raza, a pro-illegal immigrant group that continues to vehemently go after Donald Trump, claiming he is a racist for insisting the federal government follow existing immigration laws.

http://www.angrypatriotmovement.com/...ump-univ-docs/

Well done video.

The Truth About Trump University and Judge Gonzalo Curiel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9XMioUUa3E

Published on Jun 8, 2016
MP3: http://www.fdrpodcasts.com/#/3313/the...
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/stefan-molyneu...

In recent interviews, Donald Trump has expressed on his belief that Judge Gonzalo Curiel has treated him unfairly in the Trump University civil lawsuit.

The Judge was born in the United States, had parents who immigrated from Mexico and has positively spoken of his Mexican heritage in the past.

Trump commented that the Judge’s Mexican heritage may be a factor in some of the recent court decisions - given his own strong stance on illegal immigration and trade with Mexico.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9XMioUUa3E

Code of Conduct for United States Judges
Canon 2: A Judge Should Avoid Impropriety and the Appearance of Impropriety in all Activities
Canon 2C. Membership of a judge in an organization that practices invidious discrimination gives rise to perceptions that the judge’s impartiality is impaired. Canon 2C refers to the current practices of the organization. Whether an organization practices invidious discrimination is often a complex question to which judges should be sensitive....
an organization is generally said to discriminate invidiously if it arbitrarily excludes from membership on the basis of race, religion, sex, or national origin persons who would otherwise be admitted to membership.

http://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judge...tates-judges#c

Obviously, La Raza Lawyers (i.e. "the race lawyers") is engaging in invidious discrimination.

Trump is right. Curiel, Sotomayor, Cruz, McConnell, Gingrich, Ryan, Kirk, Collins, Flake, et al are wrong.

Here are our terms. Lower you flags and march straight back to D.C., stopping at every home you pass by to beg forgiveness for decades of lying, identity politics, and general unamerican activities.

I'm not finished! Before we let you leave, you establishment GOP RINOs must cross that field, present yourselves before this army, put your head between your legs, and kiss your own arses.

(props to @Thomas1774Paine for the uscourts.gov link)

The Trump University case with La Raza Lawyers member Judge Curiel is the opening move of a much larger fight.

You may not recall this but "Ted" Cruz was the founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review. He was only "Ted" in mixed company. For the Latino Law Review, he was Rafael E. Cruz. Does anybody stop to ask why latinos have their own bar association, their own harvard law review, their own lawyer groups?

Also understand that Associate Justice Sotomayor is affiliated with the Nacional Council por La Raza and is currently deliberating on the US v Texas appeal case that blocked DAPA. We might as well have Pancho Villa deciding the outcome of this case. Moreover, Associate Justice Kagan argued against the SB1070 case in her capacity as Solicitor General. Neither justice has been recused from the US v Texas case.

If you still have any faith left in our republic, call, write, or e-mail the House representatives on the House Judiciary Committee asking them to bring the subject of judicial disqualification before the committee, particularly regarding the Supreme Court. The House of Representatives can impeach judges and they even impeached Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase in 1805 (though the Senate later acquitted). Judicial disqualification is warranted in the Trump U case as well as the US v Texas case.

Whatever you do, don't retreat now!

Appears Judge Gonzalo Curiel May Be the Racist…not Trump

“WE MUST ALL REMAIN VIGILANT”

by Sher Zieve, ©2016
http://www.thepostemail.com/wp-conte..._P._Curiel.jpg(Jun. 7, 2016) — Before getting into the racially-challenged Judge Curiel, here is a brief history of La Raza for those who are, yet, unfamiliar with the organization. I started writing about La Raza (and MEChA) in 2006. Both of these are virulent racist anti-white organizations that want to have US land ceded to Mexico, will effect riots and all manner of violence to do so and have gotten a pass from the current administration. Instead, Obama appointed former Head of La Raza Cecilia Munoz to 2 positions in his White House…that of Director of Intergovernmental Affairs and the position she currently maintains as the Director of the White House Council.

Munoz has been with the ObamaGov since it began in January 2009. She wields a great deal of power and is, arguably, one of the strongest racists in his administration.

The Southwest Council of La Raza (SWCLR) was founded in 1968 and with funding from—amongst others—the leftist Ford Foundation, it quickly became the National Council of La Raza (NCLR). La Raza means “The Race” and it began as a Mexican-specific organization. The group’s motto is “Everything for The Race. Outside The Race…Nothing!” La Raza is a hard-line Marxist organization and it openly expresses hatred for white people. Even Marxist Cesar Chavez talked against the group when he commented “I hear more and more Mexicans talking about la raza—to build up their pride. Some people don’t look at it as racism, but when you say ‘La Raza,’ you are saying an anti-gringo thing, and it won’t stop there. Today it’s anti-gringo, tomorrow it will be anti-Negro.

We had a stupid guy who just wanted to play politics with the union, and he began to whip up La Raza against the white volunteers, and even had some of the farm workers and the pickets and the organizers hung up on La Raza. So I took him on. These things have to be met head on. On discrimination, I don’t even give the members the privilege of a vote, and I’m not ashamed of it. No, the whole business of discrimination can’t exist here. So often, these days, the leaders are afraid, and even though they feel strongly against racism, they will not speak out against it. If the leadership is united, then it can say, ‘All right, if you’re going to do things that way, then you’ll have to get rid of us.’ You have to speak out immediately, the first time.”

Judge Curiel is a member of the San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association. Most of these attorney groups claim they have “no affiliation with NCLR). However, they seem to follow the same tenets as the national group, including but, not limited to support for illegal immigrants (specifically Mexican, Latino, Hispanic) entering the USA.

Continuing to flout US law, Judge Curiel, also, gave US school scholarships to Mexican illegal aliens. An Obama-appointed judge who won’t obey laws he doesn’t like. Hmmm. Sound familiar? And Gotnews.com has searched naturalization records but could find none showing that Curiel’s parents who migrated from Mexico were ever US citizens.

Yes, folks. It appears Mr. Trump is correct. And who is the real racist? To me…it certainly doesn’t appear to be Trump.

We must all remain vigilant, now, and watch what people do, listen to what they say and then investigate both. It’s essential to survival.

“This is why I speak to them in parables: “Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand”–.Matthew 13:13

http://www.thepostemail.com/2016/06/...rump/?AID=7236

National Council of La Raza https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation...cil_of_La_Raza Meet The Pro-Illegal Immigrant Groups The La Raza Lawyers Of San Diego Consider Part Of Their ‘Community’ http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/06/me...#ixzz4AteONpkk
Judge Presiding Over Trump University Case Is Member Of La Raza Lawyers Group [VIDEO] http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/01/ju...#ixzz4AtQvE96b Judge Gonzalo Curiel gave scholarships to illegal immigrants and was a member of an anti-White Hispanic group http://gotnews.com/tag/gonzalo-curiel/

Trump is being railroaded - can't get a fair honest trial from this bunch.

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One of the law firms representing the plaintiffs in the Trump University lawsuit, who were appointed by the judge hearing the case, have massive financial ties to Hillary Clinton and the former president.

Liberal pundits and media talking heads mocked Trump when he accused the attorneys as being “very hostile” and biased “haters” but it now appears there is ample evidence to support his claims of unfairness in the case.

The law firm Robbins Geller was appointed to represent the Donald Trump plaintiff by federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel.

Darren Robbins, Robbins Geller chairman, donated $2,700 to Hillary’s campaign but the firm itself has been tied into more than $500,000 in donations to Clinton.

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We have to get loud about it. The facts are on our side.

I will never retreat synaptic. I know these people, I know what they're up to, and it's a very bad example and a poor reflection on most Americans of Hispanic, Mexican and Latino descent who are not La Raza, so these La Raza attorneys are using their organizations to boost and propel an anti-American agenda deep within our political system with most Americans of Hispanic descent unaware of what they're up to.

Curiel is La Raza. That's why he's doing what he is doing to Trump in this lawsuit, it's probably why he was appointed to take over the case in 2014. Trump's lawyers wanted him to recuse himself in 2014 for what Trump's lawyers believed was bias and prejudicial actions against Trump. So this is a problem that's been waging for awhile now over several different types of biased rulings.

Your head is in the right place here but I've seen some other people waffling as the establishment GOP piles-on.

Ay Carumba! Death Record For #JudgeCuriel Papa’s Proves New York Times Lying About U.S. Citizenship

June 9, 2016 by Charles C. Johnson 14 Comments

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Gonzalo Curiel, anchor baby turned federal judge!


The death certificate for the father of the controversial Mexican judge confirms that Curiel’s parents were not U.S. citizens when he was born.

Death records from Indiana records confirm that Salvador Curiel died a Mexican citizen in 1964… not as the New York Times’s Alan Rappeport reported in an anti-Donald Trump article.

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Salvador Curiel’s death record shows that he’s a Mexican citizen.

But Rappeport claimed that the elder Curiel had died a U.S. citizen. He didn’t.

Here’s what Rappeport wrote:

Judge Curiel, 62, was born in East Chicago, Ind., to parents who had emigrated from Mexico. Raul Curiel said their father, Salvador, arrived in Arizona as a laborer in the 1920s, eventually receiving citizenship and becoming a steelworker. Their parents were married in Mexico in 1946, and their mother, Francisca, became a citizen after joining her husband in the United States.

In fact Salvador Curiel never received U.S. citizenship and Francisca became a citizen in 1969–five years after her husband died and 18 years after her last son — the future judge Gonzalo Curiel — was born.

So the New York Times got it wrong. They didn’t do their fact checking. Oops.

Could the fact that Mexican telecom billionaire Carlos Slim’s ownership of The New York Times have played a role?

After all, Slim makes money when the Mexican illegal immigrants in the U.S send money home. So too does a lot of the Mexican government now that remittances have surpassed oil as the number one source of revenue for the Mexican government.

Might they have an incentive to increase the number of illegals in the U.S.?

Might Mexican judges who are connected to the Mexican government and proud of their Mexican heritage care about what happens to Mexico?

We reached out to Rappeport at his email address: alan.rappeport@nytimes.com.

Hi Alan,
You wrote that Judge Curiel’s father died as a U.S. citizen.
In fact, the death records for Salvador Curiel from the Indiana records.
How did this happen? Did you not check it?

We’ll update it if we get a response.

Here’s the thing for the media.

We had this research early on. We were waiting for you guys to screw up.

We were just waiting for Fox News, the cuckservative establishment, and the New York Times to reveal that they don’t know what they are talking about.

It’s how GotNews.com builds credibility and you, despite all your billionaire backings, lose it.

GotNews.com has received hundreds of emails about the controversial judge thanking us for our work.

http://gotnews.com/ay-carumba-death-...s-citizenship/

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After all, Slim makes money when the Mexican illegal immigrants in the U.S send money home. So too does a lot of the Mexican government now that remittances have surpassed oil as the number one source of revenue for the Mexican government.

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Slim makes money on Obamaphones...

Law professor backs Donald Trump’s conflict-of-interest charge against federal judge


http://twt-thumbs.washtimes.com/medi...29d628dfea1d4d



By S.A. Miller The Washington Times - June 8, 2016

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.”


Mr. Trump has suffered stinging rebukes from Democratic and Republican leaders, including being labeled a “racist,” after he said last week that the judge’s Mexican heritage called into question his impartiality in presiding over a civil case against the billionaire businessman.

Mr. Trump is being sued by students who claim they were ripped off by the Trump University, which teaches courses in real estate strategies.

The lawsuit has become a painful distraction for the Trump campaign.

The judge’s affiliation with the La Raza Lawyers Association, which is politically active and supports rights of illegal immigration, “absolutely” meets the standard because Mr. Trump has taken a strong stance against illegal immigration and made it the centerpiece of his presidential campaign, the professor said.

“He has specifically participated in events where illegal aliens were celebrated, where illegal aliens were promoted with scholarships,” Mr. Williams said of the judge. “On a human basis I say, God bless [illegal immigrants]. But it is clear that from his association with La Raza Lawyers that he has political and ideological affiliation with illegal immigration proponents.”

Mr. Curiel’s membership in the lawyers association has been cited by conservatives and Trump supporters across the blogosphere as evidence of bias against Mr. Trump, buttressing Mr. Williams claim that the issue at the very least creates the appearance of a conflict of interest.
The evidence, which Mr. Williams also noted, included Mr. Curiel serving on a committee that awarded a college scholarship in 2014 to a student that described himself as “undocumented.”

Mr. Williams also is a political activist who previously supported President Obama, waged a short-lived campaign as a write-in candidate for president this year and sued to remove GOP candidate Sen. Ted Cruz from the New Jersey primary ballot.

He endorsed Mr. Trump this week.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...nterest-judge/