*OK, this is important. Trump faces several Latina judges in other cases (the man is prolifically litigious!): U.S. District Judge Gloria M. Navarro; U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga; and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Granted, none of the three are of Mexican descent, so “the wall” won’t be a consideration, but are presiding over Trump’s cases and he may not like that. VL
By Michael Doyle and Marisa Taylor, McClatchy
Donald Trump’s far-flung business operations might come before myriad Hispanic judges even as he raises claims that at least one might be biased against him because of his tough posture against Mexico.
In Nevada, U.S. District Judge Gloria M. Navarro is overseeing a case in which Trump Organization lawyers and their opponents insulted one another.
In Florida, U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga is overseeing a settlement reached with aggrieved employees of the Trump National Doral resort.
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And just last week, Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined her Supreme Court colleagues inconsidering a case brought against Trump Entertainment Resorts.
The results, in these and other cases, have varied. But taken together, the intersection of frequent Trump-related litigation with a federal judiciary . . . READ MORE
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Suggested reading
Born in the early part of the twentieth century, George Washington Gómez is named after the American rebel and hero because his parents are certain their son will be a great man too. George, or Guálinto as he’s known, grows up in turbulent times. His family has lived for generations in what has become Texas. “I was born here. My father was born here and so was my grandfather and his father before him. And then they come, they come and take it, steal it and call it theirs,” his Uncle Feliciano rages.
The Texas Mexicans’ attempts to take back their land from the Gringos and the rinches—the brutal Texas Rangers—fail. Guálinto’s father, who never participated in the seditionist violence, is murdered in cold blood, and Feliciano makes a death-bed promise to raise his nephew without hatred.
Young Guálinto comes of age in a world where Mexicans are treated as second-class citizens. Teachers can beat and mistreat them with impunity, and most of his Mexican-American friends drop out of school at a young age. But the Gómez family insists that he continue his education, which he will need in order to do great things for his people. And so his school years create a terrible conflict within him: Guálinto alternately hates and admires the Gringo, loves and despises the Mexican. Written in the 1930s but not published until 1990, George Washington Gómez has become mandatory reading for anyone interested in Mexican-American literature, culture and history.
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