Discussion: Grassley Disagrees With Trump: You Can't Have An Ethnic Test To Be Judge

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Grassley Disagrees With Trump: You Can't Have An Ethnic Test To Be Judge Grassley Disagrees With Trump: You Can't Have An Ethnic Test To Be Judge Back to article
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Notice that republicans are not insisting that Trump stop being a racist. They insist only that he stop openly talking like a racist.

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the only test for a jdge that really counts is whether we think the President is the proper one to make the choice…

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Grassley: “You can’t have a religious or ethnic test to be a judge in America.”

“You can only apply an ethnic test to the President, and this one fails, so no SCOTUS pick for him.”

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If being a gibbering, psychotic misanthrope could be an ethnicity, then I’m highly prejudiced against that one. Burn a cr…no, a Cthulhu in Drumpf’s yard!

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Even when it comes to the “ethnicity” of the President nominating the judge to say… the SCOTUS?

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That tone deaf mf

Sigh

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And he’s still voting for Trump.

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Voting for him? He’s still holding a Supreme Court seat open that he hopes Trump will fill.

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The GOP is finding it hard to get rid of the bomb…

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Drumpf: “The ‘browns’ love me but they don’t love my wall. That’s suspicious. We’ve made a color card and if you ‘coloreds’ are darker than a certain shade, you won’t get on the court. If you’re orange, that’s classy. Earth tones aren’t classy.”

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So Grassley dips his pinky in the fetid water surrounding Trump and blathers.

To think Harkin was the one who retired is just sad.

I’ll bet he’s enjoying this though.

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“Well, I surely disagree with Mr. Trump on that point, and you can’t have a religious or ethnic test to be a judge in America. That’s only for that Kenyan in the White House.”

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All they’re asking is that he just act like a normal Republican.

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Grassley, who noted that he supported Curiel’s nomination to the bench, said a person should go through the motions to get a judge removed if he or she thinks that judge is unfair.

Good advice. Maybe you should go through the motions to get a judge approved instead of sitting on your a$$ stealing a paycheck.

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LOL.

it seems seems @jcblues, @irasdad and myself all went right to the exact same place.

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So now trump said MORE about the judge when he said he would not? Welp that lasted all of about 2 hours.
I bet the farm and won.

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Didn’t little Marco say the exact same thing earlier today? So who’s trumping who on the religious & ethnicity test comment?

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I think that more than a few police departments and some TSA folk have those printed up already.

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There’s been several articles about the various responses that the members of the House and Senate have made in the light of Trumps racist remarks about Judge Curiel.

As others have pointed out, the big problem for many, maybe all these folks, is that Trump has blown their cover. Trump is just the most abnormal (currently, who knows what the future may bring) and notoriously visible face on an abnormal political party. Which bring us back to Norm Orntein and Thomas Mann’s oft quoted passage:

The Republican Party has become an insurgent outlier – ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.

So, to me, it really doesn’t matter whether or not Sen.X or Congressperson Y will or won’t vote for, or will or won’t support Trump, they are STILL members of a roque political party that is a grave danger to this country and this planet.

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