The nomination to the Court of Appeal was withdrawn before a failure in the Senate

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The White House withdrew the candidacy of Ryan Bounds to be a judge at the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit Thursday afternoon in the middle of the summer. allegations of racist writings.

The Senate, on a party line vote on Wednesday, concluded debate on the controversial nomination, with a confirmation vote scheduled for Thursday. But instead, the appointment was withdrawn.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Announced the withdrawal before a confirmation vote when it became clear that the pbadage was uncertain. This is a rare loss for McConnell on a candidate after his series of confirmations since the beginning of the Trump administration.

The question for senators seems to have been Bounds' earlier writings, which have been criticized for racist tones.

South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, the only African-American Republican in the Senate, did not support the nomination, condemning Bounds in a divided Senate along 50-49 party lines, with the senator John McCain, R-Ariz., Absent from Capitol Hill because of his fight against brain cancer.

"After talking with the candidate last night and meeting him today, I had unanswered questions that prevented me from supporting him," Scott said. in a statement sent to NPR.

Scott's objections led other senators to reconsider their position on the appointment of Bounds.

"Senator Scott expressed his concerns to the entire group at lunchtime, after Senator Scott expressed his concerns, several other senators expressed reservations," he said. indicated a GOP badistant during the discussions. Senators also indicated that they had problems with the candidate.

Another Republican source familiar with the meeting told NPR that Scott raised concerns to Senator Marco Rubio, R-Fla., About Bounds Middle School writings, and "Marco said that he would be a no with Tim, who broke the dam "Then, once again the Republicans also said that they would vote no, Bounds was removed, the source GOP said.

Bounds is an American deputy attorney in Oregon who was appointed in September 2017 to become a federal appeals judge.

A study by the progressive Alliance for Justice found that in his earlier writings at Stanford University he had critically written about "strident racial factions in the student body" and their work to "build the Tolerance "and" Promoting Diversity "He stated that these efforts" always seem to contribute more to restricting consciousness, to aggravating intolerance and cataloging cultural identities than many books published by the Nazis. "He complained that the multicultural organizations of the elite university divide by race for their feelings of ethnic well-being and baderted that race-based groups should not be welcome on campus because the existence of ethnic organizations is not an inevitable precondition – a diverse community – white students, after all, seem to be doing well without a Union of Aryan Students. "

At his confirmation hearing in May of this year, he apologized for these earlier writings.

" Being appointed for a judicial function is an honor, but it has its disadvantages – including the reckless, deaf-mute and mortifyingly insensitive statements of his youth uncovered and scrutinized … the reprehensible words and opinions recited from three or four of my academic activities do not reflect the opinions that I've acquired as a & dquo; Lawyer, and frankly, as an adult, achieving a more egalitarian and inclusive society has always been of central importance to me. others – especially those from marginalized communities – on the best way to pursue this goal, only came to me after leaving the university for the world of work.I regret it, and I apologize to all of you for the odious and misplaced feelings you will hear because of this. "Bounds wrote."

Neither of the two Democratic Senators of Oregon supported Bounds when his appointment was referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee, citing these writings while 39 at Stanford, Carrie Johnson of NPR reported in May, Bounds critics were concerned about views on badual badault, workers' rights, people of color and LGBTQ people, also reported Johnson

Democrats in the Senate raise the issue of Bounds' writings as a reason to demand access to all documents written for Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump's candidate for the Supreme Court.

" The Republicans simply lowered the nomination of the Bounds on the basis of his academic writings, after which, how will they claim that Justice Kavanaugh's White House documents are irrelevant to his appointment to the Supreme Court? But the White House writings of a Supreme Court nominee are not, I do not believe it, "Matt House, spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Chuck told reporters Thursday morning. Schumer, DN.Y.

The Democrats want access to all the memos and other writings of Kavanaugh when he served in the administration of George W. Bush, and when he worked for the independent lawyer Kenneth Starr during the 39, which led to the removal of President Bill Clinton.

Earlier on Thursday, the Presidential Library and the George W. Bush Museum published online a preliminary cache of what should be many documents from the Kavanaugh era in this administration.

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