Obama Appointed
Judge Gonzalo Curiel
Tied to 'La Raza'
Group in San Diego
The federal judge appointed
by Barack Obama presiding
over the class-action lawsuit
against Trump University is a
member of the San Diego
La Raza Lawyers Association, a latino group that translates
to "The Race."
According to a 2014 Annual Dinner and Gala brochure, Judge
Gonzalo Curiel was listed as a member of the Scholarship
Selection Committee. In the same brochure, the plaintiff law
firm, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, were listed as
sponsors for the event.
While there is no discrepancy for a judge to be involved with
a local law association and no proof that Curiel is tied to any
radical pro-immigration groups, is it not odd that a judge from
a pro-latino group has been appointed in a case with Donald
Trump involving millions of dollars?
Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says Donald Trump
has a right to question the fairness of a judge.
“An independent judiciary is extremely important. But that value
is not the only one in play here,” Gonzales wrote in a Saturday
op-ed for The Washington Post. "Equally important, if not more
important from my perspective as a former judge and U.S. attorney
general, is a litigant’s right to a fair trial,” he continued.
In 2001, Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor said that she
hopes that Latin and white judges would come to different
conclusions in cases.
“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of
her experiences would more often than not reach a better
conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life,” she said
in a speech.
Many critics believe that Trump, who accuses Curiel of bias,
is simply trying to win the case for business reasons and is
showing signs of racism.
However, Trump has been making his case for years now,
before he even announced his candidacy. In 2014, Trump's
legal team said that they planned to appeal any decisions by
Curiel because of "animosity toward Mr. Trump and his views."
"It's a disgusting waste of the taxpayers' money to advance the
political interests of the attorney general," Alan Garten, the Trump
Organization's executive vice president and general counsel said
in 2014.
The facts are that judges have leniency and rightfully so.
Mandatory decisions and robotic judges lead to dangerous
and troublesome government systems. And while no proof
has come forward that Curiel has done anything illegal in the
Trump University case, he still has the power to deny motions
and fatigue Trump's legal team into compliance with his measures.
Is it not legal for Trump to challenge a thoughtful proposition?
Or should he just lie down and pay the plaintiff? Should Trump
change his mentality because of establishment pressure?
After all, Speaker Ryan condemned Trump's questioning of
Curiel deeming it a "textbook definition of a racist comment."
This represents one the fundamental problems with our country.
When someone speaks out for what they believe or fights the
government machine, they are then slammed by the media and
establishment to apologize and admit racist guilt.
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