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Believe it or not, unaffiliated groups can have similar names. The Judge is a member of California La Raza Lawyers Association which is entirely different and s
by mikeyouse 10y ago
Believe it or not, unaffiliated groups can have similar names. The Judge is a member of California La Raza Lawyers Association which is entirely different and shares no common cause with the National Council of La Raza.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/06/07/trump-supporters-false-claim-that-trump-u-judge-is-a-member-of-a-pro-immigrant-group/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/06/...
- tatrajim 10y agoConcerning the California La Raza Lawyer's Association (Judge Curiel belongs to the San Diego branch) and inflammatory comments by its founder: http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/06/09/whites-go-back-europe-california-hispanic-state-said-founder-judge-curiels-group/ http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/06/09/whites-go-back-eur... Note that the California La Raza Lawyer's Association explicitly links to the Nationsl Council of La Raza (scroll to the bottom): http://larazalawyers.net/id3.html http://larazalawyers.net/id3.html And note this 2002 NYT article mentioning Judge Curiel when he was a federal prosecutor and how much he valued his ethnic and linguistic ties to Mexico. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/26/world/new-web-of-trust-topples-a-mighty-mexican-cartel.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/26/world/new-web-of-trust-top... Concerning the 2014 San Diego La Raza Scholarship Fund and Judge Curiel's participation on the selection committee that awarded a scholarship to Ricardo Elorza, self-described as "a boy from Oaxaca, who did not know English and is "undocumented" http://sdlrla.com/scholarship/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/La-Raza-Dinnner-Program-2014-FINAL http://sdlrla.com/scholarship/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/La-...