WASHINGTON, D.C., October 12, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Another homosexual judge with ties to a LGBT legal group is among President Donald Trump’s latest batch of judicial nominees, this time to the influential Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
The White House announced a handful of federal appointees Wednesday, including assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Bumatay. A member of the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Tax Forces Section in the Southern District of California, Bumatay currently advises Attorney General Jeff Sessions on issues including opioids and organized crime.
National Review adds that he worked on the confirmations for Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Samuel Alito, and Justice Neil Gorsuch, as well as Bush administration Attorney General Michael Mukasey.
Bumatay would also be the nation’s second openly homosexual federal appeals court judge and the first on the Ninth Circuit, the San Francisco Chronicle notes. The White House’s press release also notes that he’s a member of the Tom Homann LGBT Law Association, an organization dedicated to the “advancement of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues throughout California and the nation.”
The Homann Association has staked out a number of left-wing positions, including disappointment that the Supreme Court upheld Christian baker Jack Phillips’ right to refuse to make a cake for a same-sex “wedding,” and “unequivocally denounc[ing]” the Trump administration’s ban on transgender military service.
Pro-family advocates agree that Trump’s judicial nominees are one of the highlights of his presidency, potentially shifting the federal judiciary to the right for generations to come. But Bumatay follows Judge Mary Rowland, an open homosexual who has ties to the left-wing Lesbian & Gay Bar Association of Chicago and Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, as the second appointee whose background raises doubts as to whether he would separate his homosexuality from his jurisprudence.
Conservatives see trustworthy nominees as particularly critical on the Ninth Circuit, a notoriously liberal court whose record includes blocking the administration’s transgender troop ban, a string of decisions favorable to Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit against David Daleiden and other pro-life undercover investigators, and banning prayer at local school board meetings.
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Sounds like a nice, young conservative to me. Bumatay is an active member of The Federalist Society.
https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/who-is-patrick-bumatay/
Who is Patrick Bumatay?
By Carrie Severino
Patrick Bumatay is President Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from California.
Age: 40 (approximate)
Current Position: Mr. Bumatay is currently detailed from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California in San Diego to the Office of the Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice (Washington, D.C.).
Education:
B.A., Yale University; cum laude (2000); Phi Beta Kappa
J.D., Harvard Law School (2006), Articles Editor, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (a leading law journal for conservative and libertarian legal scholarship)
Judicial Clerkship: Judge Timothy M. Tymkovich, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (2000-2001); Judge Sandra Townes, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2009-2010)
Professional Experience:
February 2018-Present: Counselor to the Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice (Washington, D.C.)
May 2017-February 2018: Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice (Washington, D.C.)
February 2017-April 2017; 2007-2008: Counsel, Office of Legal Policy, U.S. Department of Justice (Washington, D.C.)
2012-Present: Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California (San Diego, CA)
2010-2012: Associate, Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason Anello & Bohrer, P.C.(New York, NY)
2008-2009: Counsel, Associate Attorney General, Office of the Associate Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice (Washington, D.C.)
Career Notes:
As a federal prosecutor in the criminal enterprises and narcotics sections of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego, Mr. Bumatay has participated as lead counsel or second chair in nine bench and jury trials. He has also argued before Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
In the Attorney General’s Office, Mr. Bumatay advises the Attorney General on criminal matters, national opioid strategy, transnational organized crime, and prison and reentry policies.
Bumatay has worked on the confirmations of Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Samuel Alito, Justice Neil Gorsuch, and Attorney General Michael Mukasey.
In private practice, Mr. Bumatay represented clients in criminal, regulatory, and civil matters involving allegations of market manipulation, credit ratings fraud, procurement fraud, collateralized debt obligation fraud, mortgage-backed securities fraud, insider trading, and obstruction of justice.
Professional Associations:
Bumatay is an active member of The Federalist Society. He is also a member of the Federal Bar Association, the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and the National Asian Pacific Islander Prosecutors Association