Sen. Elizabeth Warren has continued with her harsh comments against Donald Trump amongst growing criticism against his comments of a federal judge’s Mexican impartiality. The Massachusetts Democrat called out the presumptive GOP nominee for his claims that U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel can’t preside fairly over a case involving Trump University because of the candidate’s rhetoric regarding some Mexican immigrants.
“Donald Trump chose racism as his weapon, but his aim is exactly the same as the rest of the Republicans. Pound the courts into submission to the rich and powerful,” Warren says in a speech she plans to give to the American Constitution Society on Thursday night. Her office released excerpts of it beforehand. “Trump isn’t a different kind of candidate. He’s a Mitch McConnell kind of candidate,” Warren also states in her prepared remarks. “Exactly the kind of candidate you’d expect from a Republican Party whose ‘script’ for several years has been to execute a full-scale assault on the integrity of our courts.”
Warren’s comments were not only directed to Trump. She also launched a broadside against congressional Republicans leaders, specifically Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan, are not better than Trump on the issue. She also cites what she contends is McConnell’s blockade of President Barack Obama’s judicial nominees including Supreme Court pick Merrick Garland, and Ryan’s acquiescence in the strategy.
“Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell want Donald Trump to appoint the next generation of judges. They want those judges to tilt the law to favor big business and billionaires like Trump. They just want Donald to quit being so vulgar and obvious about it,” Warren says. The liberal lawmaker has increasingly gone after Trump, taking on a role that she seems able to execute more effectively than other Democrats, including presumptive presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Warren is the only female Democratic senator yet to officially back Clinton, but she intends to make a formal endorsement in coming days, two sources with knowledge of her plans told The Associated Press late Wednesday. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the matter. Warren’s ardent base of liberal supporters includes many who also backed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the 2016 race and may follow her lead more than that of any other leading Democrat, except perhaps for Obama.
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