June 13, 2018
Senate Panel
Approves Bounds
Controversial
nomination gets
past objections;
Trump’s other
nomination goes
unopposed
Society apologized earlier for the
inflammatory writings he made in
college.
He said the commentary pieces
he wrote that disparaged campus
diversity groups and the college’s
handling of sexual assault sus-
pects, were “poorly worded and
ill-conceived pronouncements of
a youth who had much to learn
about the world.”
Oregon Sens. Ron
Wyden and Jeff Merk-
A controversial nom-
ley, both Democrats,
inee to the Ninth Circuit
charged that Bounds
Court of Appeals, Ryan
concealed the writings
Bounds from Oregon,
from a bipartisan Ore-
won a party line 11-10
gon judicial selection
vote by the Senate Ju-
committee that was
diciary Committee on
charged with review-
Thursday overcoming
ing the nomination
objections from Oregon
and criticized Judicia-
politicians for his record
ry Committee Chair
of making racist, sexist Ryan Bounds
Charles Grassley for
and homophobic attacks
on multiculturalism as a student at breaking with Senate tradition by
ignoring the objections of both
Stanford University.
On that same day, Trump an- home state senators.
Bounds’ nomination will now
nounced his nomination of Mult-
nomah County Circuit Judge move to the full Republican-con-
Karin J. Immergut to fill a federal trolled Senate which has approved
district judge’s vacancy in Ore- all of President Trump’s judicial
gon, a similar post to Bounds. Un- nominations that have reached the
like the nomination of the latter, it floor. A vote could come later this
drew no opposition from Oregon’s month.
two U.S. senators. Immergut, 57,
previously
spent six years
as Oregon’s
U.S. attorney,
appointed by
former Pres-
ident George
W. Bush.
Bounds,
44, was se-
lected
by
President
Karin Immergu
Trump for a
lifetime appointment. The assis-
tant U.S. Attorney for Oregon,
native of Hermiston , and mem-
ber of the conservative Federalist
USS Portland
in Hawaii
The Navy’s new amphibious
transport dock ship USS
Portland arrived in Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii this month to conduct
training exercises. The ship
named for Oregon’s largest city
was introduced to Rose City
residents during its commis-
sioning in April.
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