FOR JOINT RELEASE: Apr. 17, 2023<\/p>\n
The Presidents’\u00a0Council of the Coalition of Latino Bar Associations, comprised of the Dominican Bar Association,\u00a0the Long Island Hispanic Bar Association,\u00a0the Hudson Valley Hispanic Bar Association,\u00a0the Latino Lawyers of Queens County,\u00a0and the Puerto Rican Bar Association, condemns recent verbal attacks made against the\u00a0Honorable\u00a0Justice Juan Merchan A.J.S.C., and Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, who are respectively presiding over and prosecuting the case of People of the\u00a0State of New York v. Donald J. Trump<\/em>. Former President Trump has repeatedly made concerning and offensive statements on social media against both DA Bragg and Justice Merchan and his immediate family.<\/p>\n As recently reported in the media,\u00a0those offensive statements have been followed by multiple threats made against Justice Merchan\u00a0 and his immediate family, including harassing calls and emailed death threats. The media has additionally reported that DA Bragg\u00a0and other members of his staff,\u00a0have also received threats in the form of calls, emails, and letters. These vicious ad hominem attacks against Justice Merchan and DA Bragg are dangerous. These repulsive statements and comments have no place in civil society and have the potential to incite violence, civil unrest,\u00a0and pose a serious threat to the safety of these individuals and their families.<\/p>\n The Presidents’\u00a0Council of the Coalition of Latino Bar Associations strongly condemns the use of such character assassination, derogatory comments,\u00a0and\u00a0inflammatory, vicious, and racist statements. While we commend\u00a0Justice\u00a0Merchan for not issuing a gag order, we do call upon the lawyers representing Former President Trump in this matter, Todd Blanche, Susan Necheles, and Joseph Tacopina,\u00a0to admonish their client to refrain from the use of such\u00a0incendiary rhetoric and\u00a0unacceptable,\u00a0vile,\u00a0and racist language, and allow the court system to do its job without the use of fear and intimidation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FOR JOINT RELEASE: Apr. 17, 2023 The Presidents’\u00a0Council of the Coalition of Latino Bar Associations, comprised of the Dominican Bar Association,\u00a0the Long Island Hispanic Bar Association,\u00a0the Hudson Valley Hispanic Bar Association,\u00a0the Latino Lawyers of Queens County,\u00a0and the Puerto Rican Bar Association, condemns recent verbal attacks made against the\u00a0Honorable\u00a0Justice Juan Merchan A.J.S.C., and Manhattan District Attorney, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lihba-statement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}