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U.S. Assistant Attorney Ryan Bounds of Oregon had his nomination for a lifetime appointment to
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth District withdrawn last week after the only Republican black
member of the Senate make clear he couldn’t vote for him because of concerns about his attacks on
multiculturalism as a student at Stanford.
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Court Pick Derailed
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Nomination pulled after black senator objects
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t he P ortland o bserver
A controversial nominee to the
U.S. Court of Appeals from Ore-
gon had his nomination derailed
in the Senate Thursday after the
only Republican black member of
the Senate made clear he couldn’t
vote for him.
Ryan Bounds, 44, an assistant
U.S. Attorney in Oregon, had been
under fire for making racist, sexist
and homophobic attacks on mul-
ticulturalism as a student at Stan-
ford back in his early 20s. But his
nomination was expected to pass
with Republican votes. Just a day
earlier, a vote to end debate on the
nomination passed 50-49 with just
by
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Tim Scott indicated during a Sen-
ate lunch that he couldn’t vote for
Bounds. The concerns revolved
around the content of his writings
while at Stanford and the fact that
Bounds did not disclose the writ-
ings to a bipartisan committee in
Oregon that had recommended
him for the Ninth Circuit.
One source described that there
was then a “jail break” of Repub-
lican senators with concerns, and
once it was clear the vote was
going to go down, several others
U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C.
senators also said they didn’t want
GOP votes.
any part of voting for him, CNN
But Thursday afternoon, CNN, reported.
citing multiple sources, said that
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South Carolina Republican Sen.
Vacate Notice for Occupy ICE Protest
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A formal eviction notice was
issued Monday for protesters
camped in the street adjacent to
the federal Immigration and Cus-
toms Enforcement (ICE) building
on Southwest Macadam Avenue.
Mayor Ted Wheeler made the
announcement, citing a tense
confrontation between right wing
Patriot Prayer demonstrators and
liberal ICE protestors on Friday
as a driving concern for the deci-
sion. Other points of contention
by the mayor were the impacts on
a neighboring food cart and other
businesses, and from people hav-
ing to navigate around the protest
for access to cancer treatments at
nearby Oregon Health and Scienc-
es University.
The sweeping protest camp the
erupted over President Trump’s
“zero tolerance” immigration pol-
icies has endured for more than a
month. The mayor initially sup-
ported protesters and called for
opposition to the Trump Adminis-
tration’s separation of immigrant
children from their parents at the
U.S.-Mexico border.
City Commissioner Chloe Eu-
daly emphasized that a faction of
ICE protestors that are “more rep-
resentative of the impacted com-
munities,” called “Abolish ICE,”
have begun to peel off voluntari-
ly. It’s the city’s hope, she said,
that “Occupy ICE PDX,” the other
group, follows suit.
The demonstration resulted
in the temporary closure of the
ICE office in the first week of
the demonstration, until feder-
al agents forced protestors away
from the building entry.