Our lapdog/watchdog press barks as danger approaches:
Trump Could Threaten U.S. Rule of Law, Scholars Say
WASHINGTON — Donald J. Trump’s blustery attacks on the press, complaints about the judicial system and bold claims of presidential power collectively sketch out a constitutional worldview that shows contempt for the First Amendment, the separation of powers and the rule of law, legal experts across the political spectrum say.
Even as much of the Republican political establishment lines up behind its presumptive nominee, many conservative and libertarian legal scholars warn that electing Mr. Trump is a recipe for a constitutional crisis.
“Who knows what Donald Trump with a pen and phone would do?” asked Ilya Shapiro, a lawyer with the libertarian Cato Institute.
Finding conservative and libertarian scholars to make this point is easy, because it's true and more importantly, because it is contrary to conservative and libertarian principles.
But I know what you're thinking - hasn't this been exactly how Obama has behaved? And since you ask, is Little Ms. Email going to be a role model for respecting tedious laws such as the Freedom of Information Act that may advantage her many many enemies? And dare we mention the Clinton Global Shakedown?
Good question! So good that the Times actually tackles it in the four hundred seventy-eighth paragraph (Hyperbole Alert! It is really paragraph nineteen.):
Republican officials have criticized Mr. Obama for what they have called his unconstitutional expansion of executive power. But some legal scholars who share that view say the problem under a President Trump would be worse.
Notice that attacks on Obama's possible executive overreach are framed as purely partisan by "Republican officials" - no Republican or Democratic scholars? Well, yes - over to the right:
“I don’t think he cares about separation of powers at all,” said Richard Epstein, a fellow at the Hoover Institution who also teaches at New York University and the University of Chicago.
President George W. Bush “often went beyond what he should have done,” Professor Epstein said. “I think Obama’s been much worse on that issue pretty consistently, and his underlings have been even more so. But I think Trump doesn’t even think there’s an issue to worry about. He just simply says whatever I want to do I will do.”
It is not as if Obama is winning all of these court cases. Yet the Times couldn't find one liberal scholar to question one thing Obama has done? Or are they under the sudden illusion that on Constitutional questions Times readers routinely refer to right-wing scholars for guidance?
It's going to be a long five months.
WHO HAS TIME? Off the top of my head Obama has been pushed back by the courts on EPA regulations and his "I Did It My Way" approach to immigration "laws". Megan McArdle discusses his spending unappropriated funds as part of the Affordable Care Act. There has been the wink and a nod to the IRS for hounding Tea Party groups. The DoJ oversees settlements that include payments to favored left-wing groups without Congressional appropriation. Other outrages welcome.
Jonathan Turley comes to mind:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/12/04/turley_obamas_become_the_very_danger_the_constitution_was_designed_to_avoid.html
"The problem with what the president is doing is that he's not simply posing a danger to the constitutional system. He's becoming the very danger the Constitution was designed to avoid. That is the concentration of power in every single branch."
Posted by: Richard Lipsky | June 03, 2016 at 10:24 AM
Jennifer Rubin on Twitter
Trump’s core base of support — white, lower-income males w no college education — is immune to reason or persuasion
Posted by: cheerleader | June 03, 2016 at 10:31 AM
Trump appears to be an anti-Obama in more ways than one. Obama was a blank slate the press filled with unicorns. Trump is a blank slate the press fills with dragons.
This is a convenient way to ignore the rise of the bureaucratic state which runs rings around the limits placed on government by the Constitution -- and will whomever is in office.
Posted by: henry | June 03, 2016 at 10:34 AM
Noted by our Chitown Lurker: FEC to regulate political jokes.
This added to California enacting retroactive criminalization of climate skepticism.
Yet Trump is the Tyrant?
Simply put, government is out of control.
Posted by: henry | June 03, 2016 at 10:38 AM
Rubin confirming everything I've thought about that snotty bint.
Posted by: Captain Hate | June 03, 2016 at 10:43 AM
Status of state media fainting couches: No Vacancy
Posted by: Captain Hate | June 03, 2016 at 10:46 AM
With Hillary Clinton allowed to run for president after violating every law of national security, the Democrats have ended the rule of law in the USA, IMO.
Posted by: pagar a bacon, country ham and sausage supporter | June 03, 2016 at 10:52 AM
These assclowns have been almost completely silent on Obama's shredding of the separation of powers and we are supposed to believe that Trump is the greater threat?
What about the 400+ meetings with senior IRS officials? The rule by fiat at EPA? The stonewalling time and again by DoJ and State?
You've got to be kidding me.
Posted by: matt | June 03, 2016 at 11:05 AM
If one values law and order one might want to think twice about electing a Democrat for Mayor.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/06/03/donald-trump-supporters-terrorized-by-raging-mobs-in-san-jose-a-democrat-mayor-and-police-chief-watched-it-all/
Posted by: pagar a bacon, country ham and sausage supporter | June 03, 2016 at 11:08 AM
--But I know what you're thinking --
No you don't. Since Trump is running against Hillary not Barry my thought was any woman who obstructs justice, uses the FBI and IRS and courts to harass and ruin opponents, engages in open and public corruption on a scale to inspire awe, who delights in fantasizing about destroying the first and second amendments and who not only scurrilously attacked women abused by her husband, but is married to a man she concedes would be her co-pres and who suborned perjury, perjured himself and lost his law license for it makes any of these feeble minded concerns about Trump ludicrous on their face.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | June 03, 2016 at 11:20 AM
Actually the economist of all people, gives the lie to that demographic analysis.
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | June 03, 2016 at 11:24 AM
"Trump is a blank slate the press fills with dragons"
Trump's slate is not blank but the MFM and #NeverTrump go right ahead and graffiti it with dragons anyway.
Problem is, only they can see the dragons of their imaginations. To the rest of us it just looks like dumb graffiti.
Posted by: boris | June 03, 2016 at 11:24 AM
Trump’s core base of support — white, lower-income males w no college education — is immune to reason or persuasion
I remember when they were fondly referred to as "Reagan Democrats." But that was then...
Posted by: jimmyk | June 03, 2016 at 11:27 AM
--Finding conservative and libertarian scholars to make this point is easy, because it's true...--
No it's not.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with blustery attacks on a press that has determined the only thing it should be free from is objectivity. It is a courtier press intent on representing state power against the citizens that is violating its constitutional duties. Threats intended to elicit a little balanced behavior is a much needed boon not a threat to the republic.
Complaints about a judicial system that no longer takes conflicts of interest seriously, if they are political, rules on whims and faulty precedent rather than statute and which has determined it will not only make law but punish a lack of obeisance on lowly citizen's parts is ripe for some impeachments, not just criticism.
Bold claims of executive power? Name the last presidential candidate who didn't.
A recipe for a constitutional crisis? That complaint from a bunch of scholars whose influence is so slight they have been beating their gums [among other things] while our constitution is gutted and whose philosophy is so lame and weak they capitulate to every leftist advance and fight a rear guard action of defending marginal issues as they strategically retreat rather than gnawing away at the foundations of the left's extra constitutional edifice.
Their ineffectuality and acceptance of the left's tilted playing field is and has been a far larger threat to the constitution than Trump's pen, especially since this same band of lily-livered poltroons always assure us the next pres can simply undo whatever Barry's pen has signed.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | June 03, 2016 at 11:36 AM
In answer to Marlene's Q a thread or two ago, Chester seems fine today. Still hasn't eaten anything, but at least he's not coating the scenery any longer.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | June 03, 2016 at 11:39 AM
Low income? Crap. I must be able to really stretch a buck, amirite? :)
Posted by: Beasts of England | June 03, 2016 at 11:39 AM
Sounds like Trump is attracting way more blue collar union workers support than I hoped, thus the panic.
Posted by: DebinNC | June 03, 2016 at 11:40 AM
DebinNC, looks that way. I read this yesterday:
http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/02/trump-continues-to-win-support-from-union-members-labor-leadership-isnt-happy/
Posted by: Porchlight | June 03, 2016 at 11:43 AM
Make it squeal, Beasts. 😬
Posted by: lyle | June 03, 2016 at 11:43 AM
Outrage: San Jose Mayor blames Trump for violent, leftist mob
“At some point Donald Trump needs to take responsibility for the irresponsible behavior of his campaign,” Liccardo said.
Vox editor: If Trump comes to your town, start a riot
"Destroying property is legitimate. Shouting down is legitimate. Disruption of all events is legitimate. Murder isn't."
Yeah, the only logical response is Trump is the threat to the rule of law. ::eye roll::
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | June 03, 2016 at 11:48 AM
Jennifer can go and die in a fire with Williamson and French. Keep slurring regular Americans, losers. The self-proclaimed elite can't be vanquished soon enough.
Posted by: Beasts of England | June 03, 2016 at 11:50 AM
All those dead presidents hate to see me coming, lyle!! lol
Posted by: Beasts of England | June 03, 2016 at 11:52 AM
All Hillary does all day is tweet about Trump.
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
This one was great - she literally said he was going to be president:
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/738536082220843008
Posted by: Porchlight | June 03, 2016 at 11:53 AM
What Ig said.
Posted by: Free James D. | June 03, 2016 at 11:58 AM
Donald Trump's foreign policy is already making Americans less safe, and he's not even president (yet).
Well, she is right about one thing, he isn't President yet:)
Posted by: Buckeye | June 03, 2016 at 12:00 PM
Re: Jen Rubin and her latest vile dishonest slander...
I am not low income. I am not only college educated but grad school educated.
But as far as being immune to reason or persuasion, well, when it comes to the idea that Hillary Clinton could conceivably be an acceptable choice for President by any imaginable criteria, as compared to any GOP candidate, Trump included, well, yes. I am absolutely immune.
Posted by: Free James D. | June 03, 2016 at 12:01 PM
With apologies to Tom Petty:
It's your right if you love me
It's your right if you don't
I'm not afraid of you running away
Honey, I've got the feeling you won't
There is no sense in pretending
Your eyes give you away
Something inside you would grift any new crew
You want everyone to pay
Clin-ton Shakedown
Go ahead and do it to me
Shakedown Hil-ly take my money tonight
Shakedown Hil, I see your greed
Shakedown, it's your right
It's your right
It's your right
Posted by: sbw | June 03, 2016 at 12:08 PM
I mean think about it; we have a man who credibly at least once got away with rape and whose wife is currently trying to beat the rap on what is clearly a violation of the Espionage act and other federal laws and who placed top secret information, essentially on the internet.
She also has called for the overturning of Heller and Citizens United. (We conservatives and libertarians are supposed to supinely note such calls for the destruction of the constitution are just another perfectly legitimate legal viewpoint, not a naked grab for power by destroying our rights)
Trump wants to deny the press the right to defame public leaders which was only created by judicial fiat in 1964.
Hillary wants to deny citizens the right to form groups to engage in political speech and petition the government for the redress of grievances which the Declaration tells us were granted by God and were enshrined in the Constitution.
I know! Let's talk about the Trump threat to the rule of law.
Has Theo clubbed TM over the noggin and taken over the monkey cage?
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | June 03, 2016 at 12:08 PM
public "figures" not leaders
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | June 03, 2016 at 12:10 PM
I'm an economic ignoramus, but isn't "income" equivalent to "earnings"? So "low income" indicates there's some work or return on investment taking place, as opposed to someone who's not "earning" but "getting" freebies from Uncle Sugar?
Posted by: DebinNC | June 03, 2016 at 12:12 PM
Wow
Bearing Arms
33m33 minutes ago
Bearing Arms @BearingArmsCom
@UnderTheGunDoc Director Admits Breaking Federal Firearms Laws On Camera.
#GunGate
http://bearingarms.com/bob-o/2016/06/03/gun-director-admits-breaking-federal-firearms-laws-camera/ …
Posted by: Lurker Susie | June 03, 2016 at 12:14 PM
Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton 15h15 hours ago Donald Trump's foreign policy is already making Americans less safe, and he's not even president (yet).
How safe did that American, who BOzo and Hillary mendaciously id'd as the cause of the death of Stevens et al, feel, especially while watching his home and location being shown on national news?
Posted by: DebinNC | June 03, 2016 at 12:18 PM
>>>Other outrages welcome.<<<
the things that stick in my craw ...
leaking the Dept of Education report on for profit education companies so a handful of traders could make a tidy profit
the 100's of HHS officials that actively traded healthcare securities before official rules were handed down by CMS
Dept of Energy officials that leaked to select media early a release from the SPR
think I missed TM point about which outrages he wanted a listicle for ...
Posted by: rich@gmu | June 03, 2016 at 12:18 PM
the Russian sanctions the Obama Administration put into place which were by-and-for Wall Street ...
Posted by: rich@gmu | June 03, 2016 at 12:23 PM
The Recovery Summer VI jobs report is even worse when you consider that 1/3 of the paltry 38,000 jobs are public sector positions.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | June 03, 2016 at 12:23 PM
Deb in NC
You are right on target
Real economic numbers were revealed today much to the chagrin of Obama and Hillary.
Posted by: maryrose | June 03, 2016 at 12:25 PM
Ignatz:
Complaints on the judiciary is fine. Complaints about the specific judge who is judging a potentially damaging case against you smacks of attempted intimidation that brings a significant financial benefit for yourself. Trump is a great pit bull, but like most pit bulls running around in the wild, they don't have much discrimination in what they attack.
I get the b-b-but Hillary argument. She should be on trial, not running for President, and the whole rule of law issue is a pretty sad joke because of that.
But let's stop pretending Trump is a paragon of anything except how to attack your enemies non-stop and making the media take it and like it. And that lovely trait is a lot less swell when the "enemy" is just some common schlub just trying to do his job.
Posted by: Appalled | June 03, 2016 at 12:26 PM
How about the auto task force, manipulating the dealerships.
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | June 03, 2016 at 12:27 PM
Again, exactly, Ig.
Obama burned down the house. Clinton will torch the rest of the neighborhood. But everyone is panicking that Trump might steal the silverware.
I do not get it. At all.
Posted by: Free James D | June 03, 2016 at 12:27 PM
How safe did the Seal Team 6 members and their families feel after Joe Biden outed them days later as bin Laden's killers in a Ritz Carlton speech? Twenty of them were subsequently killed.
Posted by: DebinNC | June 03, 2016 at 12:27 PM
Yes and Reginald Walton been similarly admonished he might have reigned fitz in.
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | June 03, 2016 at 12:28 PM
lol, sbw!!
Posted by: Beasts of England | June 03, 2016 at 12:29 PM
The MFMers are runnin' the okie-doke on ya!
Don't fall for a bunch of okie-doke.
Posted by: Janet | June 03, 2016 at 12:30 PM
Appalled, Trump is not a paragon of anything and nobody here is pret being he is.
What he is, is the only other person besides Hillary who will be elected as our next President.
Since she should be, as you say, a criminal defendant facing myriad felony charges and Trump is not, that right there ought to settle any questions.
Posted by: Free James D | June 03, 2016 at 12:31 PM
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkywatzky | June 03, 2016 at 11:48 AM
(in ref to the links) so who is it that is going Nazi?
Posted by: Beasts of England | June 03, 2016 at 11:50 AM -
via Rubin >>>Trump’s core base of support — white, lower-income males w no college education — is immune to reason or persuasion<<<
wow that's a gem.
Posted by: DebinNC | June 03, 2016 at 12:12 PM -
I think the distinction is that the "white, male, no college degree" only has his labor to trade and the value of his labor has declined over time ... someones here can give a graduate level class to make out the distinction.
Posted by: rich@gmu | June 03, 2016 at 12:32 PM
You mean the same Reginald Walton that gaged Sibel Edmonds
Posted by: Truthbetold5 | June 03, 2016 at 12:35 PM
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | June 03, 2016 at 12:27 PM
another good one and the whole Cash-for-Clunkers scam ... Cash-for-Caulkers too.
another one that doesn't get much mention is the money that Zero has been sinking into self-driving cars
or how much Zero got to end to the USGS Arctic Survey and screw around with off shore leases (both Atlantic and Arctic).
Posted by: rich@gmu | June 03, 2016 at 12:36 PM
Free James D:
Since she should be, as you say, a criminal defendant facing myriad felony charges and Trump is not, that right there ought to settle any questions.
And yet it doesn't. Trump is a box of cracker jacks, as packed by Isis.
Posted by: Appalled | June 03, 2016 at 12:37 PM
Who is the referenced common schlub just trying to do his job, Appalled?
Posted by: Beasts of England | June 03, 2016 at 12:38 PM
Complaints about the specific judge who is judging a potentially damaging case against you smacks of attempted intimidation that brings a significant financial benefit for yourself.
That particular judge is an open and unapologetic member of the racist cabal known as La Raza. [redacted] him and the horse he rode in on.
Posted by: lyle | June 03, 2016 at 12:38 PM
The not born in Mexico Mexican judge.
Posted by: Appalled | June 03, 2016 at 12:39 PM
So a federal judge is a common schlub? Okie doke, I guess...
Posted by: Beasts of England | June 03, 2016 at 12:40 PM
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | June 03, 2016 at 12:23 PM
I thought were up to Recovery Summer VIII ... Obama Takes Manhattan ... Obama v. Reality
Posted by: rich@gmu | June 03, 2016 at 12:40 PM
the dog barks the caravan moves on ... the markets seems to have brushed off the numbers today.
Posted by: rich@gmu | June 03, 2016 at 12:42 PM
Via Insty:
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/06/03/vox-editor-if-trump-comes-to-your-town-start-a-riot/
A reminder. Vox is a "legitimate" media organization. It has been funded to the tune of tens of millions of dollars by major corporations like GE. It's go needs have been to the White House many times and are regularly read by the President of the United States.
I do not want to hear one more (redacted) word about how Trump or his voters are threats to civility or decency or the (redacted) rule of law.
Posted by: Free James D | June 03, 2016 at 12:44 PM
go needs was supposed to be "founders"
Posted by: Free James D | June 03, 2016 at 12:44 PM
Can't Trump's legal sharks get this La Raza shilling clown recused to keep the courts from becoming more of a clogged toilet?
Posted by: Captain Hate | June 03, 2016 at 12:45 PM
Okie Doke if if if if if if if if if if if if.............NO TELEPROMPTER. Snort.
Posted by: GUS | June 03, 2016 at 12:45 PM
the dog barks the caravan moves on ... the markets seems to have brushed off the numbers today.
That's because the markets know there's no Fed fund increase coming this month despite Yellin pissing on their legs and telling them it's raining.
Posted by: lyle | June 03, 2016 at 12:47 PM
If Trump is correct that the judge is biased against him isn't he correct in squawking to anyone who will listen?
Is the fact the the judge is of Mexican extraction rather than Mexican birth evidence his obvious political conflicts are irrelevant?
In a world of TDS the presumption a judge, who uncorked a whole bunch of court docs about Trump the day after Trump criticized him, is some innocent sober arbiter is seemingly a bit naive.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | June 03, 2016 at 12:48 PM
In clownifornia, doubtful, I guess his decision can be appealed, he's a diem sky dragon wieshipe
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | June 03, 2016 at 12:48 PM
go needs was supposed to be "founders"
Has everybody's autocorrect caught the Zippy off 'prompter disease? Mine has been unusually terrible recently.
Posted by: Captain Hate | June 03, 2016 at 12:49 PM
For the race everything, outside the race nothing.
That's the La Raza motto. The Latino KKK. Trump can't say enough bad things about that [redacted]. Good grief.
Posted by: Beasts of England | June 03, 2016 at 12:49 PM
Has everybody's autocorrect caught the Zippy off 'prompter disease?
Maybe its the new anti-hate speech feature.
Posted by: henry | June 03, 2016 at 12:50 PM
-- the markets seems to have brushed off the numbers today --
Brushed off? They're gobbling them up. A dead economy equals more free money which is what the market has latched onto in lieu of, well, profits.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | June 03, 2016 at 12:50 PM
Ignatz:
If Trump was incorrect, where does the judge go to get his reputation back? In any event, if he wasn't biased before, he probably is now.
And, I guess the days where we are all Americans, and it doesn't matter where the parents come from down the old memory hole?
Trump takes us all to very lovely places, doesn't he?
Posted by: Appalled | June 03, 2016 at 12:53 PM
In CA you have one peremptory challenge of a judge before trial.
After that you must disqualify him for cause.
Once an action has been assigned to a judge and you have not challenged him it is extraordinarily difficult to get him removed absent a bloody knife or stuffed envelope.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | June 03, 2016 at 12:53 PM
In my case, it's a question of big fingers and a small iPhone keyboard
Posted by: Free James D | June 03, 2016 at 12:54 PM
By the way, the La Raza charge has been challenged.
http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/06/03/dishonest-attempt-associate-gonzalo-curiel-la-raza/
Posted by: Appalled | June 03, 2016 at 12:57 PM
And, I guess the days where we are all Americans, and it doesn't matter where the parents come from down the old memory hole?
It's not like identity politics are breaking news.
Posted by: Captain Hate | June 03, 2016 at 12:58 PM
--If Trump was incorrect, where does the judge go to get his reputation back?--
The end of the trial, just like everyone else. If Trump loses at trial and it is upheld on appeal the judge is vindicated as are the plaintiffs.
If the opposite Trump's reputation is rehabilitated and the judge is rightly humiliated if the case is appealed and his behavior or rulings criticized or overruled.
--And, I guess the days where we are all Americans, and it doesn't matter where the parents come from down the old memory hole?--
LOL. The judge belonging to and supporting groups who exist for the purpose of saying some of us are more equal than others and noting just exactly how important it is where your parents came from would seem to be rather more the leash leading us to very unlovely places.
Trump's clumsily pointing it out is just a shout from the trail down which we have long since been diverted.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | June 03, 2016 at 01:00 PM
Trump takes us all to very lovely places, doesn't he?
Rephrasing Appalled, if we had been governed responsibly for the last decade, that places Trump has taken us would have been lovelier than they are.
Posted by: sbw | June 03, 2016 at 01:00 PM
the La Raza charge has been challenged.
Rather than being a member of La Raza the judge appears to be a member of a different group of lawyers with La Raza in its name that supports La Raza immigration cases.
A distinction without a difference.
Posted by: sbw | June 03, 2016 at 01:03 PM
sbw:
I don't disagree with you.
Posted by: Appalled | June 03, 2016 at 01:03 PM
If Trump was incorrect, where does the judge go to get his reputation back?
Once that jerk judge proclaimed his fealty to La Raza, he immediately lost his reputation, IMO. Like Beasts said, it's a Mexican KKK and in a just world would be repudiated and condemned by all honest people.
Posted by: lyle | June 03, 2016 at 01:03 PM
--By the way, the La Raza charge has been challenged.--
Kinda hard to challenge a La Raza charge by noting he belongs to something that has La Raza as part of its name.
I guess I'm supposed to engage in the Redstate magical thinking that a bunch of lawyers who form a group called The Race a name notorious for its use by the far left anti American group is just some innocent bunch of lawyers who eat at Del Taco once a month.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | June 03, 2016 at 01:05 PM
The point was too leak the documents on line and poison the jury pool, that is an administration classic.
How was it that Ken Starr did not include that piece of data in his report.
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | June 03, 2016 at 01:08 PM
By the way, the La Raza charge has been challenged
Credulousness on sale cheap today!! Buy some and get some willful blindness for free! Sadly, ignorance is all sold out.
Posted by: lyle | June 03, 2016 at 01:09 PM
--And, I guess the days where we are all Americans, and it doesn't matter where the parents come from down the old memory hole?
When the federal government stops funding "white Priviledge conferences" for teachers and giving money and tax breaks to groups like La Raza and puts an end to all the rest of the endless list of divisive, hate-filled, bigoted, racist garbage it's been doing, then we can talk about all being Americans again.
Call me when that happens, Appalled.
Posted by: Free James D | June 03, 2016 at 01:10 PM
I'm glad the Red State hair splitters are on the job informing us that just because some group has La Raza in its name there's no reason to associate it with the group having that sole phrase as its moniker. So I guess Destroy All Gringos Legal Foundation was already taken.
Try forming Nazi Legal Foundation because you think it sounds kind of edgy and see what happens.
Posted by: Captain Hate | June 03, 2016 at 01:10 PM
He's not in the Klan, he just provides pro bono representation. Gotcha. I stand corrected. [redacted] me, runnin'...
Posted by: Beasts of England | June 03, 2016 at 01:12 PM
Chenga su madre Lawyers Without Borders!
Posted by: lyle | June 03, 2016 at 01:13 PM
And Carter being fooled by khomeini is classic him, but how far back it went is eye opening, ultimately though I blame the French.
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | June 03, 2016 at 01:13 PM
Ding, ding, ding: lyle wins!!
Posted by: Beasts of England | June 03, 2016 at 01:14 PM
This kind of begging for Paul singer is unseemly.
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | June 03, 2016 at 01:14 PM
Yay!
Posted by: lyle | June 03, 2016 at 01:19 PM
In Appalled's world, La Raza isn't really racist even though it literally means, "The Race." Just like ISIS isn't really Islamic even though the first 'I' in the acronym stands for...Islamic.
Posted by: lyle | June 03, 2016 at 01:23 PM
Being appointed by Zippy the anti Solomon doesn't speak highly of the judge's adherence to courtroom objectivity, which also eluded the RedState mensas.
Posted by: Captain Hate | June 03, 2016 at 01:24 PM
It isn't merely his background but the pro amnesty stance of the organization.
But to respond, when the justice dept organized mind to topple a law enforcement official, when a single citizen and his parents were marked for prescription.
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | June 03, 2016 at 01:27 PM
Appalled stupidly thinks the truth is always beautiful and Mr. Trump going to places that are not lovely is wrong. PC run amok.
Posted by: cheerleader | June 03, 2016 at 01:29 PM
Trump renews attack on federal judge over ethnicity
http://www.foxnews.com/shows/the-kelly-file.html
Posted by: Truthbetold5 | June 03, 2016 at 01:31 PM
Meanwhile on the cve front, it's working out as expected.
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | June 03, 2016 at 01:33 PM
Here's more of Camille Paglia from that link yesterday:
Camille's leftist bona fides are never in doubt but she calls out the fraud Hilligula like few others on her side. The bit about the "nuke-horned bull would be crashing around the Red China shop" is pretty rich considering how Zippy sold out pretty much all the western world and supplied a greater threat to China with his lying, traitorous blowjob to the mullahs on the Iran nuke joke.
Posted by: lyle | June 03, 2016 at 01:37 PM
Does anyone here really think Trump "University" was not a boiler room scam?
Posted by: Truthbetold5 | June 03, 2016 at 01:40 PM
Using RedState to support your anti-Trump point is about like quoting Jane Fonda to discredit the Vietnam war.
Posted by: Momto2 | June 03, 2016 at 01:40 PM
Taranto has pointed out that both Hillary and Obama have commented on the judges handling metters involving themselves and--crickets.
I'm with Iggy and I, too, wonder what's got into TM's head.
Now I want to get this brain trust working:
I have a tip I'm following up on for Sunday. Why did the Weekly Standard and the NR fail to endorse Cruz who surely should appeal to "true conservatives" ? Instead they stood by and now want to promote French--i.e., help Hillary win? Is there a sugar daddy involved? I think there is..a sugar daddy who didn't like Cruz' stance on gay marriage and doesn't like Trump's stance on foreign affairs. A sugar daddy more amenable to the commentariat's more tractable Rubio. (Yes he said he was against gay marriage, but no one really thought he'd do much about that.)
Posted by: clarice | June 03, 2016 at 01:40 PM
Clarice, besides the Koch brothers? They are very libertarian and provide lots of cash.
Posted by: henry | June 03, 2016 at 01:43 PM
You know that's who I think, who happens to be finding erickson's new venture, many moons ago when the huntress came to dc, she spoke to singer, and she probably got the measure of the man.
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | June 03, 2016 at 01:44 PM
Comment at redstate article;
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | June 03, 2016 at 01:45 PM
Caveat emptor: it's not just a good idea, it's in Latin.
Posted by: Beasts of England | June 03, 2016 at 01:48 PM