Posted on 09/20/2019 10:24:02 AM PDT by Steely Tom
WASHINGTON (CN) – President Donald Trump announced six new judicial nominees on Friday, including two to seats on the once reliably liberal Ninth Circuit and four to federal courts in California.
One of the nominees to the Ninth Circuit will be familiar to senators, as Trump has now three times chosen Patrick Bumatay for a federal judgeship. Trump first chose Bumatay, a prosecutor in the Southern District of California, for a seat on the Ninth Circuit in 2018, but the Senate never took action on the nomination.
Trump tapped him for a judgeship again earlier this year, this time for a position on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.
Bumatay, who is openly gay, currently leads the appellate and narcotics sections of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California, and worked as counselor to the attorney general in 2018, advising on opioid strategy and other issues.
California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris, both Democrats who sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, raised concerns about Bumatay’s lack of judicial experience during his first pass at the Ninth Circuit position. Neither senator immediately commented Friday on his renomination.
A member of the conservative Federalist Society, Bumatay drew praise from conservatives after Trump announced he will again put him forward to sit on the Ninth Circuit.
“Patrick Bumatay will make a terrific judge on the Ninth Circuit,” former Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement. “He has dedicated his career to upholding the rule of law. Patrick’s many fine qualities, including his integrity, intellect and collegiality, make him exceedingly worthy of this position.”
Alongside Bumatay, Trump chose former Nevada Solicitor General Lawrence VanDyke to fill a Ninth Circuit vacancy. VanDyke serves as deputy assistant attorney general at the environment and natural resources division of the Justice Department.
While the tope appellate lawyer in Nevada, VanDyke fought the Obama administration’s Waters of the United States regulation, which the Trump administration repealed last week. He also signed onto briefs challenging Obama immigration and employment law regulations, litigation that will likely draw scrutiny from Democrats.
Another Federalist Society member, VanDyke also worked as assistant solicitor general of Texas and as the solicitor general of Montana. He previously spent time as an associate at the firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
Nevada Senators Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto, both Democrats, criticized the nominations and accused the White House of ignoring “the broad, consensus-based opinion of Nevadans.”
“Instead, the White House has chosen to move forward on their extreme judicial agenda,” Rosen and Cortez Masto said in a joint statement. “While we will review the full record of this nominee, we are disappointed that the White House has chosen to nominate a candidate with a concerning record of ideological legal work.”
The remaining nominees Trump announced Friday are up for seats on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.
Michelle Pettit, one of the Southern District of California nominees, has worked as a federal prosecutor in the district since 2007 and before that was senior trial counsel for the U.S. Navy in San Diego.
Her fellow nominee, Knut Johnson, is in private practice in San Diego, where he focuses on criminal defense, including white collar crime and regulatory offenses.
Steve Kim, up for a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, is currently a magistrate judge on the same court, having taken the position after working as managing director at the firm Stroz Friedberg, where he worked on cybersecurity compliance and data privacy issues. Kim has also served as a federal prosecutor.
John Holcomb, nominated to a seat on the same court, focuses on intellectual property and bankruptcy litigation at the Costa Mesa, Calif., firm Greenberg Gross. A former officer in the Navy, Holcomb previously ran his own private practice and worked as a partner at the Riverside and Irvine, Calif., firm Knobbe Martens.
Ronald Reagan did NOT appoint Ruth Buzzy Ginsberg to the Supremes; Slick Willie Clinton did.
1993, not 1983.
No queer can be socially conservative. Not possible to be both.
One of the nominees to the Ninth Circuit will be familiar to senators, as Trump has now three times chosen Patrick Bumatay for a federal judgeship... Bumatay, who is openly gay, currently leads the appellate and narcotics sections of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California, and worked as counselor to the attorney general in 2018, advising on opioid strategy and other issues.
California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris, both Democrats who sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, raised concerns about Bumatay’s lack of judicial experience during his first pass at the Ninth Circuit position. Neither senator immediately commented Friday on his renomination.
That seals the VP nomination for Mayor Pete, btw. Thanks Steely Tom.
I guess I found it.
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Are you certain it wasn’t Abraham Lincoln...../rimshot
Maybe she had provided everyone of them with pictures of herself when she was 25-years old and they thought she was too hot to reject...
His brother received more recognition, but I always thought “My Mother the Car” was vastly underrated. Just like the car in David Hasselhoff’s “Night Rider”. If the car had been given a spot in Baywatch, the show could have gone on to be an international success.
Wait. Never mind.
Bill Clinton named Ginsburg to the Supreme Court in 1993 - Carter did give her her first judgeship, straight to the D.C. Court of Appeals in 1980. Jimmy Carter remains the only President who never named a Supreme Court Justice, making his reign of error moderately less than an absolute disaster.
Great, he appoints a gay and a vanDyke. Anyway, hope they work out, but still better than anyone Hillary would have picked.
“No progs want to live away from the coast.”
You don’t know Leftists very well if you think that. They’ll live north of Alaska if it means they can impose their will on conservatives.
“I worry that gay, conservative judges cannot serve two masters...He might go back to the dark side on us.”
Me too. Too many ‘conservatives’ (not many, but too many) come out as gay and immediately turn into Flaming Leftists. I also don’t get a good feeling here, seems like a Trojan Horse, waiting to strike when the timing is right.
I did. He’s gay. SO is Milo and he gives it to the libs.
“But...the children... :(
I have no pity, NONE, ZILCH, NADA!! for the sons and daughters of either the morons who let this happen by voting for the idiots or the opposition (us) who decided to sit on their ignorant asses because our candidate was not “politically pure” enough.
I have told my grand children (2-15 and 16 yrs old) what they are looking at without trying to frighten them and said when it happens to make sure you ask mom and dad why they were such flaming butt wipes when they could have prevented it all from happening.
Ultimately we will get the government we deserve.
That’s why Jesus said a man cannot serve two masters. Lincoln said a House cannot stay divided.
It will eventually come down to one or the other.
“Liberal 9th Circus is being pushed in a conservative direction. Good.”
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NOPE. Trump nominated a flaming fag..
“Bumatay, who is openly gay, “
I’ll bet 70% of my pocket money the faggot will vote for gay crap all the time. Instead of turning the 9C right, it’s becoming moderate..
I’m not interested in whether he is socially conservative. I am interested in whether he is a judicial conservative. What two consenting adults do in private may be a good subject for a sermon in church, but it’s a lousy one for the law. He sounds like a solid candidate for an important position. His personal life is none of my business.
thanks that was where i got confused but anyway she’s a disaster and a big embarrassment the way she’s behaving thanks
yes agreed thanks
Probably true. Tribalism seems to ALWAYS prevail, regardless of how principled someone seems as a conservative. Once the tribe is threatened (be it the sisterhood, the ethnic-hood, the bro-hood, or what will likely be the gay-hood), then people who we thought understood that conservatism MUST triumph over tribalism become flaming Leftists, at least on particular issues - and that’s if we’re lucky. If we’re not lucky, they become hard-core Leftists on EVERY issue, once the tribe calls them home.
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