The United States Senate voted 53-40 Tuesday to confirm assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Bumatay to the influential Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, despite concerns over his ties to an LGBT legal group.
President Donald Trump nominated Bumatay last year, citing his experience with the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Tax Forces Section in the Southern District of California, and role as an advisor to former Attorney General Jeff Sessions on issues including opioids and organized crime. He worked on the confirmations for Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Samuel Alito, and Justice Neil Gorsuch, as well as Bush administration Attorney General Michael Mukasey.
Bumatay has garnered headlines as an openly homosexual judicial nominee selected by a Republican president, but less attention has been placed on his membership in the Tom Homann LGBT Law Association, an organization dedicated to the “advancement of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues throughout California and the nation.”
The Homann Association has staked out a number of left-wing positions, including disappointment that the Supreme Court upheld Christian baker Jack Phillips’ right to refuse to make a cake for a same-sex “wedding,” and “unequivocally denounc[ing]” the Trump administration’s ban on transgender military service. Yet despite the association’s stances being at odds with the GOP base as well as the Trump Administration, Senate Republicans have shown little concern that Bumatay might share its views.
The above comes from a Dec. 10 story on LifeSiteNews.
I’ll give credit to President Trump, where and when it’s due. But, in this case, this is very disappointing. Time will tell if Bumatay, in this lifetime appointment, will rule based on the Constitution and other law or advance the agenda of the LGBTQ lobby and the sexual revolution.
An “openly homosexual” judge for the infamous Ninth “Circus” Court??? Big mistake! Gay “marriage” and gay acts of sex.perversion should be against the law, to begin with! He should be a Role Model, practicing Chastity!
If we look at the big picture, President Trump has appointed 25% of all Circuit Judges in less than three years. That is the long game. Originalist judges. Thank God for sending US a great leader.
I’ve never heard of him and I’ve never heard of the LGBT law association he supposedly belongs to. I have a feeling (though I don’t know yet!) whether he is one of the Trump judicial appointees that the Bar Association rates as unqualified. Being LGBT (or not) should have no bearing on judicial appointments. Qualifications and an ability to be open minded, however, count for everything.
Our President is fantastic at throwing liberals off of their game.
While they are scratching their heads about why he appointed this guy, he has gotten through many, many conservative judges. He will shape the judiciary for years. This will be his greatest accomplishment.
May he have 5 more years of this and at least 2 more Supreme Court justices to replace.
God bless President Trump!
This is just another example of the moral bankruptcy of President Trump and the Republicans. He will not get my vote in 2020.