I read a post from someone I respect who raised concerns about one of the appointments to the ninth circuit. I wonder who recommended this man, certainly not the Heritage Foundation. The posts I saw were praising Trump for going around the CA senators. Unless Bumatay is a sleeper conservative he sounds like someone the CA senators would choose. Any thoughts? “Trump just nominated Patrick Bumatay to serve as a Circuit Judge on the nightmarishly liberal U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Bumatay is openly homosexual and a member of the Tom Homann LGBT Law Association.” https://thla.org/about/?fbclid=IwAR0IRMQ8GcuMMrW8g4jV2780ft9AmMrqDs6waY9nPdr8Qb-KVbId2BMD7fw
I don’t know anything about him. I will research, but I would just note that one can perfectly well be openly gay and still be a conservative. If conservative were strictly socially conservative, a lot of us would have been long gone. I trust Trump’s judgement. Completely.
Gack!
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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Other than being gay, seems to be a law & order guy. nothing much on him, bio-wise. member of Federalist Society - conservative outfit.
Just an FYI...
Pres. Trump renominated 2 of Obama’s previous nominations.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/11/senate-confirms-15-trump-judicial-nominees/
“Two of the district judges who made it through committee Thursday were first picked by President Obama, but had their nominations expire. Mr. Trump renominated them.”