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Yet another prominent lifetime Republican leaves the GOP because of Trump this is a daily occurrence now

"I spent 29 years in government service to help the people of our country and I love our country and its people. And I have given more to this country than the vast majority of people,” wrote Alcala. “What I know for sure is that we, as a country, are better than this.”

Texas Republican Quits GOP: 'Trump's the Worst President in the History of This Count

Another lifelong Republican has left the party — this time, a Texas judge — citing her love for her country and her disdain for President Trump.

Following the departure of Rep. Justin Amash (I-Michigan) earlier this month, Texas Republican jurist Elsa Alcala announced on Facebook her leaving the Grand Ole Party. She, like Amash, specifically called attention to President Trump and the willingness of Republicans to excuse support for the President.

“I have had long discussions with friends who support him who say: ‘he’s an embarrassment on x, but he’s been great about y and the Democrats are terrible about z,'” wrote Alcala. “To me, nothing positive about him could absolve him of his rotten core.”

Alcala said that core is racism, which makes her timing clear — the most overt act of racism from the president came over the weekend when he told four Congresswomen of color — three of whom were born in America and the fourth having been a citizen longer than Melania Trump — to go back to their nations of origin. She echoed those comments in her departure.

“[D]on’t tell me to go back where I came from. My relatives have been in this Texas since before it was the USA,” she wrote. “My English is probably better than yours.”

She said that as the current Republican party supports Trump, she cannot support that party. Instead, she’s throwing her lot in with the 2020 Democratic field.

But despite being the core of Alcala’s rationale, President Trump might not be her only source of motivations. In her eight years on the Texas court that handles all final appeals for death penalty cases, Alcala’s views on capital punishment grew distant from those of her conservative colleagues. She was first appointed to that court by then-Governor Rick Perry (R) after serving as an appellate court judge.

On the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, Alcala oversaw the legal proceedings for the busiest execution chambers in the country, facing thousands of cases a year and coming to decisions on hundreds of people’s fates weekly. She eventually started noticing what she characterized as flaws in the system, and by the end of her tenure, she questioned the constitutionality of Texas’ death penalty altogether.

“In my view, the Texas scheme has some serious deficiencies that have, in the past, caused me great concern about this form of punishment as it exists in Texas today,” she wrote.

She opted not to run for reelection to the Court in 2018. At present, she is a self-employed lawyer. After leaving office, she floated the idea of a moratorium on the death penalty in Texas. But ultimately, it was Donald Trump that caused her to leave the Republican Party altogether.

“I spent 29 years in government service to help the people of our country and I love our country and its people. And I have given more to this country than the vast majority of people,” wrote Alcala. “What I know for sure is that we, as a country, are better than this.”

crockett

# Republican Walk Away...

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TheSquealer

It's your shared delusion that left you screaming "russian collusion" for two years, just as it will the that same shared delusion that leaves you confused and broken when Trump wins in 2020.

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Rochard

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“prominent”

Hawkeye

Good riddance.

crockett

A judge...

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The Truth Hurts

that you, I, and 99.9% of the population never heard of before today.

Rochard

This is not about Republican vs Democrat. This is about a very, very bad President.

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OneHungLo

This is how you know you guys are completely full of shit

wehateporn

I have seen no evidence that Trump is KKK, if there was then Bladewire and Crockett would have let us know (every 20 seconds)

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crockett

That doesn't matter.. You nor I live in Texas so we need not know who she is.. Other than she just stood up for what was right..

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Rochard

He is obviously a racist. If say things like "go back to where you came from" you are a racist.

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pimpmaster9000

breaking trump now has 30820482048% approval rating....polls are fake but not fake at all it depends on what they say...if they are pro trump then they are, somehow,not fake but if they say anything against trump they are fake

only trump supporters can tell when a poll is fake or not because they have trump powers

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baddog

I tell everyone that wasn't born in California to go back to where they came from; does that make me racist?

NewNick

And that is relevant to the thread how ?

Starting to think you are a bot.

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pimpmaster9000

bush was also shit...and very dumb...

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EddyTheDog

It would make you a twat...

You don't do that so I am not sure what your point is.....

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OneHungLo

It's perfectly relevant.

You people were delusional with "muh Russian collushun" for 2 1/2 years, and you're even more delusional if you think Donald J Trump is not popular amongst Republicans. And something tells me he's quite popular with Independents too.

But carry on with whatever the outrage du jour is today.

Bladewire

He's posting drunk again

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baddog

I do that constantly; transplants are the reason California sucks these days.

Feel free to visit, but don't move here.

Bladewire

↑↑↑ Started drinking early today

He only hate posts when he's been drinking

NewNick

Oh I understand now completely, its good old fashioned whataboutism.

But I was being stoopid again, this is sophisticated whataboutism that does not mention Obama or Hillary at all.

Touche.

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Rochard

No, because it involves states not countries.

If you tell me "Go back to the state you came from" it means you are telling me to move back to NJ. That's not an insult.

But if you tell someone from Cuba to "go back where you came from" you are insulting their ethnicity, and claiming they are not worthy of being an Americn citizen. If you tell someone of color that they "need to go back to where they came from" they don't mean their original home state.

If you cannot understand that I am disappointed in you.

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Tasty1

If a native Indian says you must go back where you came from, is that racist?

wehateporn

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