President Donald Trump nominated Oregon federal prosecutor Ryan Bounds to serve on the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
The White House withdrew the nomination when it learned there were not enough votes among GOP senators to confirm Bounds, whose racist writings in college drew the criticism of the GOP’s only Black senator, Tim Scott of South Carolina.
Scott said that Bounds could not explain if his thinking on race had changed since college.
“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,” Scott said.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-judge-idUSKBN1K92U2
While a student at Stanford University, Bounds wrote a number of editorials and articles for the Stanford Review that criticized multiculturalism and ethnic organizations.
“I submit that the Multiculturalistas, when they divide up by race for their feel-good ethnic hoedowns, engage in nearly all of [the fundamental behaviors of groupthink],” Bounds wrote in an editorial “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 defended campus rapists by calling for a higher “burden of proof” in sexual assault cases. “There is nothing really inherently wrong with the University failing to punish an alleged rapist—regardless his guilt—in the absence of adequate certainty; there is nothing that the University can do to objectively ensure that the rapist does not strike again,” he said.
In addition, Bounds ridiculed the “sensitivity” of LGBTQ students for their response to the vandalism of a “gay pride” statue. He also criticized the protests of Latino students after the university’s only “high-ranking Chicano” administrator was “terminated.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-sen-tim-scott-tanks-trump-nominee-over-past-racist-remarks
In another article, Bounds chided organizations that promoted diversity.
“I am mystified because these tactics seem always to contribute more to restricting consciousness, aggravating intolerance and pigeonholing cultural identities than many a Nazi bookburning,” Bounds wrote.
