Posted on 12/14/2019 12:26:25 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Senate confirmed President Trump’s ninth judicial nominee to the liberal 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday, elevating Patrick Bumatay, an openly gay Filipino man, to the federal bench over objections from his liberal home-state senators.
Mr. Bumatay, who has worked as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California, cleared the Senate by a 53-40 party-line vote.
He did not have support from California Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Kamala D. Harris, who said the White House never consulted with them about the nominee.
“Patrick Bumatay lacks the knowledge and experience necessary for the 9th Circuit. He also acknowledged working on the separation of immigrant families while at the Justice Department and refused to answer questions about other controversial issues,” said Ms. Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee.
Daniel Goldberg, legal director of the progressive Alliance for Justice, said there’s plenty of more qualified Republican lawyers in California the president could have tapped.
“He has minimal appellate experience,” Mr. Goldberg said of the pick.
But conservative groups cheered Mr. Bumatay, saying he received a “Qualified” rating from the American Bar Association, a group often touted by Democratic lawmakers.
“The reason the Democrats and these left-wing groups think Patrick Bumatay is unqualified is because he is a conservative judicial nominee who happens to be a minority who doesn’t fall in line with liberal orthodoxy,” said Mike Davis, president of the Article III Project, which backs the president’s judicial nominees.
Mr. Bumatay is the 49th federal appeals court judge appointed by Mr. Trump.
Later this week, the Senate is expected to confirm Lawrence VanDyke, another nominee to the West Coast’s 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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BACKGROUND OF THE NEW 9th CIRCUIT JUDGE:
Bumatay earned his Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from Yale University, and his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. After graduating from law school, Bumatay served as a law clerk to Judge Sandra L. Townes of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and Judge Timothy Tymkovich of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Bumatay has served in various positions at the United States Department of Justice, including the Office of the Attorney General, the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, the Office of the Associate Attorney General, and the Office of Legal Policy. He serves as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of California in the San Diego office, where he is a member of the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Forces Section.
He is a member of the Federal Bar Association, the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, the National Filipino American Lawyers Association, and the Tom Homann LGBT Law Association.
Bumatay, a member of the Federalist Society since 2003, worked on the Bush Cheney campaign in both 2000 and 2004. He was President of the Yale College Republicans and Vice President of the Harvard Law School Republicans.
After law school and a clerkship with Judge Timothy Tymkovich, he worked at the Justice Department on the confirmations of Chief Justice John Roberts and Samuel Alito and former Attorney General Michael Mukasey.
After President Trump became president, he left his role as a line prosecutor and volunteered to be detailed to work beside senior political leadership at the Justice Department. While there, he won an award for his work on Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation.
I wish Trump wouldn’t appoint these type of people (Harvard grads).
Hyphenation is Un-American. Sick and tired of the labels/identities.
Hmm, what can we normal people name ourselves?
signed: openly heterosexual Irish-American patriot.
“””””””Hyphenation is Un-American. Sick and tired of the labels/identities.””””””””
Hyphens don’t concern me in the least.
I am a proud uneducated-deplorable.
You’re concerned about the hypen? I’m more concerned about having another faggot on the bench. Guess we have our priorities straight. Anyone ask him about what his thoughts are about the “bake the cake” issue?
That being said , he should keep his preferences in that area to himself.
An openly gay conservative. And Democrats say we hate gay people! Geez.
Butt, butt, butt———Evil orange man hates gays and non whites right?
Read his background in post 2. Why can’t gays have their own conservative views just like the folks we praise for blaxit and jexit
— or even white folks can have their own conservative
Views and that is all
Right
Anyone ask him about what his thoughts are about the “bake the cake” issue?
You may be right.
keeps the Doctor away
I thought the Log Cabin Republicans were the conservative gay group. Is that still around?
I thought the Log Cabin Republicans were the conservative gay group. Is that still around?
Like openly wet water.
Are you kidding?
I love these schadenfreude moments. Makes the libs twist themselves in knots. Both over the fact a Group Member isn’t in their camp, and trying NOT to say why they don’t like him.
Don’t worry, before long libs will be calling him all kinds of names that conservatives aren’t allowed to use.
I’m not thrilled about having a sexual pervert in a position to judge others either.
He should recuse himself from any case where sexual orientation is a factor.
It’s kind of shocking to see a party line vote on a gay nominee where the Republicans are all for and the Democrats are all against.
Part of me thinks that makes for interesting politcal fodder. And part of me thinks I would never want to expose the general public to fodder of that nature.
No. What he lacks Ms. Feinstein, is blind allegiance to the Democrat party and an the complimentary "I'll do whatever you tell me to do" switch.
I'm willing to look the other way when it comes to saving our Republic.
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