Lawyers Tell Trump How They Really Feel
Right-leaning lawyers condemn the president.
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We refuse to share the silence of most of the Republican caucus in Congress, whose timidity in the face of this abhorrent behavior reflects the debased politics of the day. We add our voices to those who condemn the President’s ignorant racist nature and urge all citizens of whatever party to join us in rejecting a politics of division that is an affront to the rule of law.
— Checks and Balances, an organization of conservative and libertarian lawyers, in a statement released in response to Donald Trump telling a group of minority congresswomen to go back to their own countries… even though they were absolutely born in the United States. It should shock no one that George Conway has signed on, but some other conservative legal luminaries also joined the statement.
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The full statement from Checks and Balances (and the full list of signatories) can be found on the next page.
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