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A Trump judicial nominee apologizes for controversial articles mocking multiculturalism








By Meagan FlynnMay 10Email the author

Ryan Bounds is sworn in before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in D.C. on May 9. (Yuri Gripas)
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President Trump’s nominee for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit apologized during his confirmation hearing Wednesday. At issue: a slate of articles disparaging multiculturalism that he wrote more than 20 years ago as a Stanford University student.
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Senate withdraws Trump circuit judge nominee over racial writings

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AFP19 Jul 20187Washington (AFP) – Senate leaders took the rare step of withdrawing President Donald Trump’s latest circuit court judge nominee on Thursday, after an African-American Republican lawmaker expressed concern about the attorney’s race-tinged college writings.


Senator Tim Scott ultimately tanked the nomination when it became clear that Ryan Bounds, an assistant US attorney in Oregon, would not have sufficient support for confirmation as a judge for the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.


“For the information of all senators, the nomination will be withdrawn,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told the Republican-controlled chamber minutes before the scheduled vote.


It was a surprise move that dealt a blow to the White House, as judicial nominees are rarely withdrawn at such a late stage.


Bounds wrote a 1995 article for a conservative student paper while attending Stanford University, in which he discussed the concept of “race think” and diversity promotion by “strident racial factions” of the student body.


As a nominee to the circuit court Bounds had faced opposition from his home state’s two senators, both Democrats, along with all other Democrats in the chamber.


But a GOP source familiar with the proceedings said Bounds ran into deep trouble when Scott, the Senate’s only black Republican, raised concerns about the college writings.


Scott expressed his concerns to Republican Senator Marco Rubio, who said he, too, would vote no.


“With more Republicans heading to no, Bounds was withdrawn,” the source said.


Trump’s Republicans hold a narrow 51-49 majority in the Senate. But with Senator John McCain battling brain cancer back in Arizona and unable to vote, a 50-49 majority effectively means that a single Republican defector can sink a nominee.


The Senate has nonetheless confirmed a record number of judicial nominees in the first 18 months of Trump’s presidency.


The Bounds rejection comes as the Senate also considers Trump’s US Supreme Court nominee, conservative jurist Brett Kavanaugh, to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.


Kavanaugh worked for years in President George W. Bush’s administration, and as a federal judge has written hundreds of opinions.


Democrats want extra time to study Kavanaugh’s extensive paper trail before the Senate confirmation vote, and they warn that Republican leadership is seeking to block release of Kavanaugh’s writings from his time in government.


After Republicans sank the Bounds nomination based on his college writings, “how are they going to argue that Judge Kavanaugh’s White House papers aren’t relevant to his nomination to the Supreme Court?” said Matt House, communications director for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

This is one of the articles they are using for withdrawing the nomination......

One of Bounds’ articles criticized “race-think” in which groups of “multicultural demagogues” create racial divisions at Stanford.
“During my years in our Multicultural Garden of Eden,” he wrote, “I have often marveled at the odd strategies that some of the more strident racial factions of the student body employ in their attempts to ‘heighten consciousness,’ ‘build tolerance,’ ‘promote diversity’ and otherwise convince us to partake of that fruit which promises to open our eyes to a PC version of the knowledge of good and evil. I am mystified because these tactics seem always to contribute more to restricting consciousness, aggravating intolerance and pigeonholing cultural identities than many a Nazi bookburning.”

http://www.abajournal.com/news/artic...ollege_writing

Originally Posted by stoptheinvaders

This is one of the articles they are using for withdrawing the nomination......

One of Bounds’ articles criticized “race-think” in which groups of “multicultural demagogues” create racial divisions at Stanford.
“During my years in our Multicultural Garden of Eden,” he wrote, “I have often marveled at the odd strategies that some of the more strident racial factions of the student body employ in their attempts to ‘heighten consciousness,’ ‘build tolerance,’ ‘promote diversity’ and otherwise convince us to partake of that fruit which promises to open our eyes to a PC version of the knowledge of good and evil. I am mystified because these tactics seem always to contribute more to restricting consciousness, aggravating intolerance and pigeonholing cultural identities than many a Nazi bookburning.”

http://www.abajournal.com/news/artic...ollege_writing

I don't see anything damaging here. The whole of his working career should hold considerable weight over a few writings from over 20 years ago. Our Congress, especially the Senate, has become completely disfunctional!

I didn't see anything wrong either, at least not with the writings I found.

I posted the articles with the hope others might weigh in.

It appears to me it was withdrawn because he is not 100% in lock step with the brainwashing from the left and the media.

If you don't have the votes, you have to withdraw. Shame, because now they have to start all over to fill that spot on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Originally Posted by stoptheinvaders

I didn't see anything wrong either, at least not with the writings I found.

I posted the articles with the hope others might weigh in.

It appears to me it was withdrawn because he is not 100% in lock step with the brainwashing from the left and the media and their brainwashing.

I hear what you're saying, but I really think it simply boils down to the only black Republican Senator and his swaying of Rubio that killed the nomination. It's a shame when you know ahead of time that regardless of who you bring forth 100% of the Democrats are going to vote to oppose that individual. Senator Scott had the power in this situation and screwed us.