Posted on 07/19/2018 12:27:03 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian
In a dramatic move Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell withdrew the nomination of President Donald Trump’s pick for the Ninth Circuit, Ryan Bounds, after reports surfaced that his nomination didn’t have enough votes for confirmation. Bounds, an assistant U.S. attorney in Oregon for the last eight years, was the Trump administration’s first nominee to the Ninth Circuit, named in September to replace Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain, for whom Bounds clerked. O’Scannlain took senior status at the end of 2016.
Both of Bounds’ home-state senators, Democrats Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, opposed his nomination. They withheld their blue slips for Bounds, in part, claiming he failed to disclose to their screening committee opinion pieces he wrote for a conservative student paper during his undergraduate studies at Stanford University.
In one article, Bounds railed against “race-focused groups” on college campuses, accusing them of fostering what he described as “race-think.” During his confirmation hearing, Bounds acknowledged the “overheated” and “overbroad” nature of his rhetoric, but defended his record of helping promote diversity within the profession. [snip]
One Republican senator, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, had indicated to colleagues earlier on Thursday he wouldn’t be able to vote for Bounds, according to a Capitol Hill reporter. Citing Bounds’ racial remarks, Scott said he needed more time before voting to approve the pick.
Trump can’t dissolve the Ninth Circuit. He is not King nor God nor Dictator. Congress can add a circuit or dissolve, not Trump.
Scott & Rubes waited until after Bounds came out of the committee to bring this stuff up. Slimy.
“One Republican senator, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, had indicated to colleagues earlier on Thursday he wouldn’t be able to vote for Bounds.”
So it goes, an otherwise excellent conservative defaults to his (fill in the word) when something in that area is brought up. Always a huge problem with women too. Makes it tough for us.
Trump can drop a MOAB on Congress.
As this was happening, Sen Chris Murphy from Connecticut (one of my former Senators until I left CT) was complaining bitterly on Twitter.
I am sad to see a “conservative” nomination withdrawn, but gleeful to see that Senator Murphy was kept from any more lawmaking today.
Our Republic is based on the Roman model which allowed for DICTATORS when necessary to solve DYSFUNCTION.
Read a book for Christs sake, or if that is too hard you can Google it.
Lincoln and FDR were DICTATORS.
Wake up.
My thoughts exactly; we need to take Indiana, Florida, West Virginia, North Dakota and Missouri. Don’t nominate idiots, get solid people elected, then morons like Collins and Murkowski count for much less.
Not sarcastic, just confused.
The original poster said "I’m sure he’s (Ryan Bounds) one of us. Ryan being a class A prick for Soros, is just being a prick as usual.
I kind of figured they must be talking about a different Ryan since they also said Bounds is one of us.
>>I’m nearly 60 and I’ve never seen a GOP Majority that’s as strong as a Rat minority. Never.<<
Me too and me too.
Those times were different and if Lincoln were alive today, he would not be allowed to do what he did. FDR did not dictate, either. Congress passed legislation he wanted and the Supreme Court overturned numerous laws. FDR was reigned in by the Supreme Court often which is why he wanted to pack the Supreme Court and which he was not allowed to do. It failed.
LOL!!! It is worth repeating. Your post is one of the most silly, laughable and unserious posts I have ever read.
I think we should open a dialogue on term limits. I'm sick of these creeps.
Fitzgerald.
How very dare he.
Bounds is being accused of “racially insensitive remarks,” a catch-all that takes in just about every view a PC liberal might not agree with.
I like the sound of Bounds. He calls it race think which is different from racist in that it involves the inability of those on campus to evolve beyond instinctively thinking of blacks as a heroic suffering collective unable to see them outside the mythical characteristics that define the collective whether it applies to that individual or not.Basically the first thing race think folks think of when they see a black person is the color of his skin and then have a hard time seeing the individual.
“One Republican senator, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, had indicated to colleagues earlier on Thursday he wouldn’t be able to vote for Bounds, according to a Capitol Hill reporter. Citing Bounds’ racial remarks, Scott said he needed more time before voting to approve the pick.”
I hope Scott draws a strong challenger in the primary next time he’s up. I’m sick of the constant racial hustle.
It’s the Thurmond curse! In his later years, ol’ Strom had turned liberal too, but he stuck around for his fateful 100th birthday. Ask TLott.
I think I remember somebody posting that Trump’s pick for the 9th circuit was a mistake, not a real conservative. I don’t know if that is true, but if so, maybe McConnell was trying to give Trump a Mulligan.
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