A high-profile pastor has urged his followers to object to one of President Trump’s judicial nominees.
Trump has nominated Patrick J. Bumatay to replace Judge Carlos Bea on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Bumatay currently serves as a US attorney in Southern California.
If he is successful, Bumatay will become the first Filipino American to serve as an Article III federal appellate judge and the first openly gay judge on the Ninth Circuit.
However, as with any Trump nominee, Bumatay has detractors – this time on both the left and right of the political spectrum.
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Senator Kamala Harris, on hearing of his nomination, called Bumatay “highly-flawed” and said he “lacks the judgment and qualifications to serve on the Ninth Circuit.”
Her views on Bumatay have been echoed by fellow Californian Senator Dianne Feinstein, who says Bumatay, “has only ever argued two cases before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals …. Most of his work has been in district courts, not federal appeals courts.”
Patrick Bumatay has only ever argued two cases before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the same court on which he would serve for life if confirmed. Most of his work has been in district courts, not federal appeals courts. pic.twitter.com/eRMEPjyY5F
— Senator Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) October 31, 2019
Earlier this week, Pastor E.W. Jackson, who unsuccessfully ran for the US Senate in 2018, used his radio show, The Awakening, to encourage followers to complain about Bumatay’s nomination. His reason – surprise, surprise – is because Bumatay’s gay.
“How this nomination got by President Trump, I do not know,” Jackson said. “This guy is a complete and a total activist who has an agenda to further the cause of normalizing and legalizing, in the civil sense, homosexuality in our country. We don’t need that kind of person as an appeals court judge.
“This guy is bad, bad news. He is a homosexual activist … and he brings this into his legal practice. Folks, we don’t need judges who have an ideological agenda to use the bench to transform the culture into something they think it should be, contrary to everything we’ve ever stood for.
“His nomination needs to be quashed, and it is my hope that it will either be withdrawn or it will be defeated by a vote in the United States Senate.”
Bumatay’s appointment, if confirmed, would be for life. It would also make him eligible for a potential seat on the Supreme Court one day – something that horrifies Jackson.
“There is a tremendous opportunity there for judicial tyranny when people take that job because they’ve got some agenda other than the implementation of the law and the Constitution in a fair and objective way.
“I’m convinced that these folks, because that’s their agenda, they can’t be fair and objective because they’ve got an agenda that is preeminent in their lives, and in their minds, and in their hearts, and in their behavior, and in their activity.”
It’s the second time Trump has nominated Bumatay, after first doing so in late 2018. On that occasion, the Senate failed to act on it and sent it back to the White House. His current nomination is now pending before the Senate.
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Jackson – who was banned from Twitter earlier this year – has long been a critic of the advancement of LGBTQ rights. After criticizing Bumatay on his radio show on Monday, he spent a portion of Tuesday’s show attacking Democratic Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg over his “claims” to be Christian.
H/T: Right Wing Watch
jcoberkrom
IF they can’t then anyone who has ever made any anti-gay comments cannot be fair and objective. He better be careful his words will come back and bite him in the butt.
tf3.0
Watching readers trying to reconcile Trump being anti LGBT with Trump trying to appoint LGBT judges and amabassadors?
Hilarious.
Trump is trying to decrease immigration of cultures violently hostile to LGBT, appoint LGBT bureaucrats and judges, and hasn’t really pushed any anti LGBT laws….
And yet, he hates us? Hogwash.
Chrisk
Yeah, one freaking gay judge and a homocon ambassador compared to the right wing stacking of the courts. That seems fair. Lol
Funny how the religious right disagrees with you so much. As a matter of fact their happiness is right off the charts with Trump. He’s their new Messiah after all. Wonder why that is? Something about undoing abortion, SSM, and bigotry encoded into the constitution I believe.
sillyme
Most of these people just hate themselves more than us for they fear we will corrupt them and their kids and what they need to watch out for is the real threats out there to them and their families not us for most that I know would not hurt anyone but respect is key and don’t argue with the foolish ones, that’s their ignorance showing not ours.
Jack Meoff
On that basis, Christians cannot be judges either because they can’t be fair and objective because of their religion. It goes both ways A-wipe.
Cam
The left is protesting this guy because of his qualifications, his work history, his opinions.
The right is protesting because of how he was born.
Nothing more needs to be said.
Chrisk
“I’m convinced that these folks, because that’s their agenda, they can’t be fair and objective because they’ve got an agenda that is preeminent in their lives, and in their minds, and in their hearts, and in their behavior, and in their activity.”
I guess it’s the same way I’m convinced douchebags like yourself can’t be objective. We could easily expand your bigotry to other minorities as well.
Chrisk
Oh and it’s funny how the tea party patriots all but vanished when the GOP came to power. Hmm…could it mean all that taxation upset was all just BS?
Den
To a certain extent, local Tea Party people were voted out as it became clear they knew nothing at all about how to govern, and their desire to reduce the funding and size of government on all levels lead to many problems on state, county and municipal levels.
Those that survived on the national level morphed into the “Freedom Caucus”, still very much alive and dangerous. And with free access to Trump’s ear.
Thad
Gay people can be great judges. Example: Dan Anders in Philadelphia.
djmcgamester
I’m confused. A guy who isn’t fair and objective is saying other people can’t be fair and objective? Baffling.