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Swordsmyth
07-19-2018, 04:29 PM
In a stunning defeat for President Donald Trump (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/donald-trump), Republican Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.) on Thursday refused to support appeals court nominee Ryan Bounds ― and sunk his nomination altogether ― over some of his college writings on race.After an hour of mysterious inactivity on the Senate floor, during which time Bounds was widely expected to be confirmed, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) emerged to say it wasn’t happening.
“For the information of all senators, the nomination will be withdrawn,” he said.
It takes only one Republican to deny confirmation to a judicial nominee, and multiple Senate aides said Scott was the “no” vote. Scott, who is the only African-American Republican senator, allegedly took issue with some of the things Bounds had written during his time at Stanford University.
Bounds’ college writings include him complaining about multicultural organizations (https://www.afj.org/our-work/nominees/afj-snapshot-ryan-bounds) that “divide up by race for their feel-good ethnic hoedowns.” He wrote that “race-focused groups” should not continue on campus (https://www.afj.org/our-work/nominees/afj-snapshot-ryan-bounds), claiming that the “existence of ethnic organizations is no inevitable prerequisite to maintaining a diverse community ― white students, after all, seem to be doing all right without an Aryan Student Union.”
Bounds also accused campus “race-thinkers” (https://www.afj.org/our-work/nominees/afj-snapshot-ryan-bounds) of denigrating African-Americans as “oreos,” “Uncle Toms” or “sell-outs” if they rejected “victimhood status.” On matters of sexual assault, Bounds wrote in college (https://www.afj.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/AFJ-Snapshot-Ryan-Bounds.pdf) that “there is nothing really inherently wrong [with a university] failing to punish an alleged rapist ― regardless his guilt.”
His failed confirmation is a huge blow to Trump’s otherwise successful efforts to fill up federal courts with conservative judges. Bounds, 45, was nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
Scott was vague later about why he voted no.
“After talking with the nominee last night and meeting with him today, I had unanswered questions that led to me being unable to support him,” he said in a statement.

More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/republican-tim-scott-tanks-one-194102538.html

Anti Federalist
07-19-2018, 05:23 PM
It takes only one Republican to deny confirmation to a judicial nominee, and multiple Senate aides said Scott was the “no” vote. Scott, who is the only African-American Republican senator, allegedly took issue with some of the things Bounds had written during his time at Stanford University.

Bounds’ college writings include him complaining about multicultural organizations that “divide up by race for their feel-good ethnic hoedowns.” He wrote that “race-focused groups” should not continue on campus, claiming that the “existence of ethnic organizations is no inevitable prerequisite to maintaining a diverse community ― white students, after all, seem to be doing all right without an Aryan Student Union.”

Bounds also accused campus “race-thinkers” of denigrating African-Americans as “oreos,” “Uncle Toms” or “sell-outs” if they rejected “victimhood status.” On matters of sexual assault, Bounds wrote in college that “there is nothing really inherently wrong [with a university] failing to punish an alleged rapist ― regardless his guilt.”

I seem to recall the same sort of flap being stirred up because Clarence Thomas said similar things.

Based on just the snips above, what is factually untrue?

(Save the typing, I'm sure you're aware that question is rhetorical, truth has nothing at all to do with anything in these times.)