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Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio has really wanted to take attention away
from his position on
immigration which is a position that to a lot of Republicans and conservatives
is not particularly palatable they don't really like it and in part it could be
maybe because the markle rubios
personal background in cuba in any case
rubia wants to take attention away from that and try to bolster his conservative
credentials so what does he do
well as the New York Times reporting Marco Rubio has
gotten in the way of a nomination %uh a black
gay judge the nomination a gay black Miami judge to the federal bench will
not move forward
after Senator Marco rubia announced he was withdrawing his support
over concerns about the judge's actions into criminal cases
I could go through the menu shove those two cases needless to say they relate
mostly to
up a sentence and they relate to
admissibility evidence now I want to focus very specifically on one of these
cases
my point of view in the point you have many is that mark a ruby 0
is doing this to bolster his his position with conservatives who don't
want
a black gay judge appointed that that's just that that's the bottom line that's
that's my position on this
let's look at the case is that Marco Ruby 0 is saying
changed his mind about this one is about sentencing we don't really need to get
into it
he made us he he the judge issue to a sentence along
sentencing guidelines it wasn't by any means crazy
this is the other story Judge Thomas here
decided to keep a lookout a confession in a *** case
in the case involved five defendants where
a young woman was *** and shot to death and her boyfriend was left for
dead
no judge thomas ruled that to move the defendant in the case including a
fifteen-year-old
either had not been properly read their Miranda rights
or had not understood them the rulings were appealed
and judge thomas was partially affirmed by the appellate court
ultimately this is the key ultimately
all five those defendants were ultimately convicted
or they pleaded guilty Louis constitutional
conservatives should be applauding that decision
the reading and understanding I've Miranda rights
should be something better constitutional conservative like so many
of those who are
concerned about supporting markle Ruby 0 concerned about
his position on immigration they should be applauding the judge's decision
shouldn't we want
judges acting in accordance with the law and deciding that if
if defendants were not properly Moran dies before
giving a confession that the confession should not stand
that to me more than anything else shows that this is just a transparent attempt
from Marco Rubio
to come up with something to justify
the killing have this nomination other than the fact
that conservatives would like him blocking the nomination
a gay black guy yeah of course that's it to look for anything
to try and I deal is your demise this
the this nomination it's unfortunate but you know what
a lot of his supporters are probably right behind you I encourage our
audience look at the details have the two cases that Marco group B O is
claiming
as his reason for killing this nomination in spite of the fact that
Judge Thomas
is absolutely qualified and tell me if you disagree with me
that these are not just bogus strongmen used
to take down the nomination let's take a break next we will talk to attorney Tom
Koch an ASCII
about the Florida stand your ground k summers Alexander where she has been
granted a new trial
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