Pat Buchanan Defends Trump Against “La Raza” Judge
Before the lynching of The Donald proceeds, what exactly was it he said about that Hispanic judge?
Stated succinctly, Donald Trump said U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is presiding over a class-action suit against Trump University, is sticking it to him. And the judge’s bias is likely rooted in the fact that he is of Mexican descent.
Can there be any defense of a statement so horrific?
Just this. First, Trump has a perfect right to be angry about the judge’s rulings and to question his motives. Second, there are grounds for believing Trump is right.
On May 27, Curiel, at the request of The Washington Post, made public plaintiff accusations against Trump University — that the whole thing was a scam. The Post, which Bob Woodward tells us has 20 reporters digging for dirt in Trump’s past, had a field day.
And who is Curiel?
An appointee of President Obama, he has for years been associated with the La Raza Lawyers Association of San Diego, which supports pro-illegal immigrant organizations.
Set aside the folly of letting Clinton surrogates like the Post distract him from the message he should be delivering, what did Trump do to be smeared by a bipartisan media mob as a “racist”?
He attacked the independence of the judiciary, we are told.
But Presidents Jefferson and Jackson attacked the Supreme Court, and FDR, fed up with New Deal programs being struck down, tried to “pack the court” by raising the number of justices to 15 if necessary.
Abraham Lincoln leveled “that eminent tribunal” in his first inaugural, and once considered arresting Chief Justice Roger Taney.
The conservative movement was propelled by attacks on the Warren Court. In the ’50s and ’60s, “Impeach Earl Warren!” was plastered on billboards and bumper stickers all across God’s country.
The judiciary is independent, but that does not mean that federal judges are exempt from the same robust criticism as presidents or members of Congress.
Obama himself attacked the Citizens United decision in a State of the Union address, with the justices sitting right in front of him.
But Trump’s real hanging offense was that he brought up the judge’s ancestry, as the son of Mexican immigrants, implying that he was something of a judicial version of Univision’s Jorge Ramos.
Apparently, it is now not only politically incorrect, but, in Newt Gingrich’s term, “inexcusable,” to bring up the religious, racial or ethnic background of a judge, or suggest this might influence his actions on the bench.
But these things matter.
Does Newt think that when LBJ appointed Thurgood Marshall, ex-head of the NAACP, to the Supreme Court, he did not think Marshall would bring his unique experience as a black man and civil rights leader to the bench?
Surely, that was among the reasons Marshall was appointed.
When Obama named Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, a woman of Puerto Rican descent who went through college on affirmative action scholarships, did Obama think this would not influence her decision when it came to whether or not to abolish affirmative action?
“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,” Sotomayor said in a speech at Berkeley law school and in other forums.
Translation: Ethnicity matters, and my Latina background helps guide my decisions.
All of us are products of our family, faith, race and ethnic group. And the suggestion in these attacks on Trump that judges and justices always rise about such irrelevant considerations, and decide solely on the merits, is naive nonsense.
There are reasons why defense lawyers seek “changes of venue” and avoid the courtrooms of “hanging judges.”
When Obama reflexively called Sgt. Crowley “stupid” after Crowley’s 2009 encounter with that black professor at Harvard, and said of Trayvon Martin, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon,” was he not speaking as an African-American, as well as a president?
Pressed by John Dickerson on CBS, Trump said it’s “possible” a Muslim judge might be biased against him as well.
Another “inexcusable” outrage.
But does anyone think that if Obama appointed a Muslim to the Supreme Court, the LGBT community would not be demanding of all Democratic Senators that they receive assurances that the Muslim judge’s religious views on homosexuality would never affect his court decisions, before they voted to put him on the bench?
When Richard Nixon appointed Judge Clement Haynsworth to the Supreme Court, it was partly because he was a distinguished jurist of South Carolina ancestry. And the Democrats who tore Haynsworth to pieces did so because they feared he would not repudiate his Southern heritage and any and all ideas and beliefs associated with it.
To many liberals, all white Southern males are citizens under eternal suspicion of being racists. The most depressing thing about this episode is to see Republicans rushing to stomp on Trump, to show the left how well they have mastered their liberal catechism.
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I HATE ANYONE WHO LOOK’S SMIRKY…..THIS JUDGE IS SMIRKY LIKE OBAMA AND HILLARY AND KASICH……..APPOINT ANOTHER JUDGE!!
I have looked at him before and thought the same thing.
Pat gave the correct analysis.
Thank God for Pat Buchanan.
You’ve got your wise Latinà and now your wise Cholò.
Brilliant as usual from Pat Buchanan. What Trump said was it was definitely a conflict of interest. Here’s a man wanting to build a wall and a judge that helps to bring in illegals. Could he have made that point without mentioning the judge was of Mexican heritage. It wasn’t said as an insult. I’m just getting tired of white people having to be ultra careful of their words like Mexican. But white people can be called every name in the book. Its getting a little tiring. Maybe some of the minorities should let up on the sensitivity. Not everyone that comments is throwing an insult or should I say racial attack.
And imo, the organizations that the judge belongs to are very racist. LaRaza is taught in schools here in AZ. LaRaza mission is to retake U.S. land and lets not forget to get rid of the white man. So I ask you who exactly is the racist.
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The article has imo some good grounds for debate. People’s opinions seem to be fair… until I read your post and realize that it is exactly those kind of unfounded, illiterate comments what make the rest of the white population look bad. Please understand the difference between racist and racial. Many of those organizations exist basically because of the lack of voice and support in a predominantly white population. ..And your comments about: “retake the U.S… get rid of the white man”… mmmh really?, those kind of thoughts sound, in simple words, racist. are you?
Um……AFS……the statement was “U.S. land”…….not “the U.S.”…..and they very much believe that they Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is illegal, and should be reversed.
Not sure what part of the country you hail from……the the town I live in here in Southern California, that has a deep water port serving both a military base and the public, is over 40% Hispanic, and the adjoining town is over 65%. They are already doing it in cities and towns all over the Southwest, exactly what Jorge Ramos said several years ago they were going to…. “…You have 1.2 kids per family, we have over 4…..we’re gonna out-populate you, then we’re gonna out-vote you. You may as well learn to speak Spanish, and get used to it, because it is inevitable…..”
Like it or not, this is the PUBLISHED viewpoint of many of the partner organizations to the San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association, which honored Judge Curiel in June of last year…..many of whom have also already publicly called for a boycott of all Trump businesses and properties.
There more than plenty of fodder for bias here…..
Additionally, once a judge rises to the Federal level, he should primarily be actively supporting and involved with organizations that support ALL heritages…..not just his own……wouldn’t you agree? I mean, could you imagine a judge rising to ANY level of advancement, if his chosen organizations had the word “White”, or “Caucasian” in them?
And by the way, San Diego is 44% White, and 28% Hispanic…..so the gap of “predominance” is rapidly shrinking there as well, while they act as a major gateway for the inflow of illegal immigrants to the rest of the country……with the help of the very organizations being discussed.
Pat Buchanan is correct…As long as this is America we have the right to free speech and if the judge got his feelers hurt… so what….he is not giving a fair shake….therefore he is not entitled to bitch when the same happens to him! It’s America PAL! Love it or G.T.F.O.
one thing that is being missed here is that the judge appointed lawyers who have ties to the Clintons to the plaintiffs. Can somebody please explain to me why the plaintiffs get court appointed lawyers. I’ve been searching Class Action Lawyers and they all take the case on the belief they can win and get their fees and expenses out of the settlement if they win. So if somebody can tell me, I would like it. Thank you.
Organized crime owns both major political parties and controls the American political system. And I mean the “REAL” organized crime, not the guys from Sicily. The media (aka propaganda machine) has accepted an offer it couldn’t refuse. The people? Collectively, we are morons at our brightest moments; unconscious to reality at our peak alertness; cowards at the pinnacle of our courage; and, apparently, gluttons for political punishment. Mr. Trump, though sincere, has not only one, but a horde of Goliaths to contend with.