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Trump Appeals Court Nominee Yanked Over Racially Insensitive Writings

by Reuters

   U.S. Senate Republican leaders on Thursday pulled the plug on one of
   President Donald Trump's judicial nominees over racially insensitive
   articles he wrote as a college student, marking the first time a Trump
   appeals court pick was not confirmed.

   The Republican-led Senate had been poised to vote on whether to confirm
   Ryan Bounds, a federal prosecutor, to sit on the San Francisco-based
   9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals when Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
   announced that the nomination would be withdrawn.

   No other Trump appeals court nominations have failed, although several
   nominees to federal district courts have previously been withdrawn.