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BREAKING: KKK, Blackface Photo Emerges From Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s Yearbook

A photo emerged on Friday that appears to show Virginia Democrat Governor Ralph Northam appearing in a photograph that shows someone dressed up in a KKK hood and in blackface.

The photo, from Northam’s 1984 yearbook at Eastern Virginia Medical School, and was shows “two people, one wearing white Ku Klux Klan robes and a hood, the other with his face painted black,” The Virginia Pilot reported.

“On Wednesday, in a shocking revelation about the nature of the pro-abortion Democratic Party, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, a supposed moderate, endorsed the notion that a woman should be able to let an infant, born alive, die on the table if she decided she did not want the child,” The Daily Wire reported.

Northam made the remarks during an interview with WTOP’s “Ask The Governor.” Northam stated:

This is why decisions such as this should be made by providers, physicians, and the mothers and fathers that are involved. When we talk about third-trimester abortions, these are done with the consent of the mother, with the consent of physicians, more than one physician by the way, and it’s done in cases where there may be severe deformities, there may be a fetus which is non-viable. So in this particular example, if the mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen, the infant would be delivered, the infant would be kept comfortable, the infant would be resuscitated if this is what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physician and the mother.

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Notice How Democrats are Never Indicted?

In a display of raw federal power unseen since Barack Obama rappelled from a Blackhawk helicopter to personally beat Bin Laden to death with an autographed copy of The Audacity of Hope, Roger Stone was arrested at his home by a 29-man, 17-vehicle tactical unit of the FBI. 


Another Trump figure has fallen — the end is near, and the noose is tightening.  All Trump associates now fear for their lives and freedom.  Yet some people who have committed crimes much more serious than any of the Mueller indictments remain, as always, unafraid.  That list, by no means comprehensive, includes, Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Clapper, Brennen, Steele, Strzok, Page, McCabe, Ohr (Mr. and Mrs.), Rice, and Yates.



Some are guilty of lying to Congress or the FBI, mishandling classified information, obstruction, conspiracy, destroying evidence, and much more.  A case could be made that the Mueller investigation itself destroyed evidence when it wiped clean the Strzok and Page cellphones to delete text messages requested by IG Horowitz.  Yet being a Democrat means never having to say you’re sorry because the rule of law only applies to Republicans and conservatives.  There are no pre-dawn, guns-drawn raids to arrest Democrats.


Hillary sold 80% of America’s uranium for a 20-minute, $500,000 Moscow speech by her husband and $140 million in donations to the “Clinton Foundation,” which foundationally was not a charity in any meaningful sense (unless of course, the charitable purpose was to make Bill, and Hill fabulously wealthy). 


In contravention of campaign finance law, Hillary paid through her attorneys millions of dollars to a foreign national to use his connections with a foreign government to compile a dossier whereby both the foreign national and the foreign government could interfere with a presidential election.


She knew her bathroom server was illegal and a risk to national security.  But she wanted to keep her crimes secret.  Mishandling of classified material and the wholesale flea-marketing of her office and influence are imprisonable offenses. 


Yet, “What difference, at that point, does it make?”  Hillary’s exempt from prosecution because she’s a Democrat and a bona fide leftist; and that provides blanket immunity.  She knew, as did others from the Obama Administration, that a Democrat can’t get arrested in this town.


One can act with impunity when there is no fear of prosecution.  Why not harvest ballots to steal elections, provide sanctuary for felonious illegal aliens, lie to Congress, or try to frame a president?  Democrats never worry about financial ruin or Mueller going after their families (In like Flynn). 


Sally Yates opened the Flynn investigation under the pretense that he violated the Logan Act, a 1799 law widely believed unconstitutional and never successfully used to prosecute anyone, and a law he didn’t violate since talking to the Russian ambassador was his job as National Security Advisor.  Yet, John Kerry and his negotiations with the mullahs after Trump canceled the Iran deal was ignored.


Real crimes go unaddressed, while misstatements about lawful actions warrant incarceration.  Mueller is fond of false-statement charges where the underlying actions aren’t illegal; he also loosely interprets the definition of “lie.”


Flynn was indicted for lying about lawful actions, as was Stone, and Papadopoulos.  Cohen was indicted for testifying negotiations over a Moscow Trump Tower ended in January (2016) when they ended in June.  George Papadopoulos told investigators a conversation with suspected CIA spy Joseph Mifsud took place prior to him joining the Trump campaign when he knew before their meeting that his appointment was imminent. 


Stone testified he had contact with people solely by phone when he also spoke via email and text.  He claimed to have used a single intermediary in communicating with Wikileaks when he used two.  He said he didn’t discuss his conversations with his intermediary when he did.  Those are three of the seven charges. 


Most of Mueller’s indictments are process crimes which came about as a result of his investigation.  By making people fear they might have committed a crime, Mueller induces them to lie so they can be indicted and turned against his real target, President Trump. 


Clapper lied to Congress, as did Brennan and Comey, who can only remember things when he has a $15 million book to write.  McCabe lied to the IG.  Barack Obama weaponized federal agencies to attack his political opponents.  Hillary sold her office as Secretary of State for money.  Strzok disregarded his oath of office and used his power to attempt to destroy Trump.  In fact, he guaranteed he’d destroy Trump.  Then in testimony before Congress, he smirked with more arrogance than any Covington kid could ever muster.  Yet, no arrests. 


Hillary destroyed her phones and her illegal server, and Comey leaked classified FBI memos to impel the appointment of his best bro as Special Counsel.  Again, no indictments. 


Did I mention the newly elected anti-Semitic Islamic congresswoman who married her brother to commit immigration fraud? 


Apparently, in America today the only people who should fear prosecution are those who disagree with the “ones we’ve been waiting for” because if you’re a Democrat, you can’t get arrested in this town.


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In a display of raw federal power unseen since Barack Obama rappelled from a Blackhawk helicopter to personally beat Bin Laden to death with an autographed copy of The Audacity of Hope, Roger Stone was arrested at his home by a 29-man, 17-vehicle tactical unit of the FBI. 


Another Trump figure has fallen — the end is near, and the noose is tightening.  All Trump associates now fear for their lives and freedom.  Yet some people who have committed crimes much more serious than any of the Mueller indictments remain, as always, unafraid.  That list, by no means comprehensive, includes, Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Clapper, Brennen, Steele, Strzok, Page, McCabe, Ohr (Mr. and Mrs.), Rice, and Yates.


Some are guilty of lying to Congress or the FBI, mishandling classified information, obstruction, conspiracy, destroying evidence, and much more.  A case could be made that the Mueller investigation itself destroyed evidence when it wiped clean the Strzok and Page cellphones to delete text messages requested by IG Horowitz.  Yet being a Democrat means never having to say you’re sorry because the rule of law only applies to Republicans and conservatives.  There are no pre-dawn, guns-drawn raids to arrest Democrats.


Hillary sold 80% of America’s uranium for a 20-minute, $500,000 Moscow speech by her husband and $140 million in donations to the “Clinton Foundation,” which foundationally was not a charity in any meaningful sense (unless of course, the charitable purpose was to make Bill, and Hill fabulously wealthy). 


In contravention of campaign finance law, Hillary paid through her attorneys millions of dollars to a foreign national to use his connections with a foreign government to compile a dossier whereby both the foreign national and the foreign government could interfere with a presidential election.


She knew her bathroom server was illegal and a risk to national security.  But she wanted to keep her crimes secret.  Mishandling of classified material and the wholesale flea-marketing of her office and influence are imprisonable offenses. 


Yet, “What difference, at that point, does it make?”  Hillary’s exempt from prosecution because she’s a Democrat and a bona fide leftist; and that provides blanket immunity.  She knew, as did others from the Obama Administration, that a Democrat can’t get arrested in this town.


One can act with impunity when there is no fear of prosecution.  Why not harvest ballots to steal elections, provide sanctuary for felonious illegal aliens, lie to Congress, or try to frame a president?  Democrats never worry about financial ruin or Mueller going after their families (In like Flynn). 


Sally Yates opened the Flynn investigation under the pretense that he violated the Logan Act, a 1799 law widely believed unconstitutional and never successfully used to prosecute anyone, and a law he didn’t violate since talking to the Russian ambassador was his job as National Security Advisor.  Yet, John Kerry and his negotiations with the mullahs after Trump canceled the Iran deal was ignored.


Real crimes go unaddressed, while misstatements about lawful actions warrant incarceration.  Mueller is fond of false-statement charges where the underlying actions aren’t illegal; he also loosely interprets the definition of “lie.”


Flynn was indicted for lying about lawful actions, as was Stone, and Papadopoulos.  Cohen was indicted for testifying negotiations over a Moscow Trump Tower ended in January (2016) when they ended in June.  George Papadopoulos told investigators a conversation with suspected CIA spy Joseph Mifsud took place prior to him joining the Trump campaign when he knew before their meeting that his appointment was imminent. 


Stone testified he had contact with people solely by phone when he also spoke via email and text.  He claimed to have used a single intermediary in communicating with Wikileaks when he used two.  He said he didn’t discuss his conversations with his intermediary when he did.  Those are three of the seven charges. 


Most of Mueller’s indictments are process crimes which came about as a result of his investigation.  By making people fear they might have committed a crime, Mueller induces them to lie so they can be indicted and turned against his real target, President Trump. 


Clapper lied to Congress, as did Brennan and Comey, who can only remember things when he has a $15 million book to write.  McCabe lied to the IG.  Barack Obama weaponized federal agencies to attack his political opponents.  Hillary sold her office as Secretary of State for money.  Strzok disregarded his oath of office and used his power to attempt to destroy Trump.  In fact, he guaranteed he’d destroy Trump.  Then in testimony before Congress, he smirked with more arrogance than any Covington kid could ever muster.  Yet, no arrests. 


Hillary destroyed her phones and her illegal server, and Comey leaked classified FBI memos to impel the appointment of his best bro as Special Counsel.  Again, no indictments. 


Did I mention the newly elected anti-Semitic Islamic congresswoman who married her brother to commit immigration fraud? 


Apparently, in America today the only people who should fear prosecution are those who disagree with the “ones we’ve been waiting for” because if you’re a Democrat, you can’t get arrested in this town.


William L. Gensert can be followed on Twitter @williamlgensert




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HAMMER: Now Is Not The Time For The White House To Go Wobbly On Judicial Nominations

On Tuesday night, The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board instigated a firestorm within conservative media when it reported that President Trump’s new White House Counsel, Pat Cipollone, was negotiating with leftist California Democratic senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris on a new slate of judicial nominees for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The Journal opined that the White House seemed to hope that such a concilitatory capitulatory gesture might “somehow produce less resistance to Mr. Trump’s nominees.” Erick Erickson quickly sounded the alarm at The Resurgent, excoriating the brewing cave as a “terrible, terrible deal.”

Notably, the Journal also reported that the specific target of the California senators’ ire is Patrick Bumatay, an assistant U.S. attorney with a highly acclaimed conservative reputation — who also happens to be 40 years old, openly gay, and Filipino-American.

On Wednesday, less than a day after the Journal’s viral editorial, the White House announced its new slate of judicial nominees. Three of the nominees are for the Ninth Circuit — and Bumatay is not one of them. Instead, Bumatay — likely the most ideologically solid and most committed of all the California nominees under consideration to the original public meaning of the U.S. Constitution — was tapped for a district court judgeship on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.

Somewhere in Washington, D.C., Miguel Estrada is surely shaking his head.

This ought to be unacceptable — and I respectfully disagree with Erickson and Ed Whelan that this newly comprised judicial slate is all fine and dandy.

To be clear, I have nothing personally against the White House’s three announced nominees for the Ninth Circuit: Daniel Bress, Daniel Collins, and Kenneth Lee. But there is something here that really does not sit right. Collins clerked for infamously leftist Jimmy Carter judicial nominee Dorothy Nelson on the Ninth Circuit before he clerked on the Suprme Court for the late Justice Antonin Scalia — who, despite his deserved reputation as a conservative jurisprudential icon, was known to occasionally (perhaps frequently) hire an annual Left-leaning clerk to serve as his chambers’ “counter-clerk.” Collins also graduated from Harvard College in 1985, which makes him approximately 15-16 years older than Bumatay. Bress and Lee are younger, but neither nominee’s resume exactly jumps off the page with a commitment to furthering the conservative legal cause in the public arena.

In short, I think Whelan is misguided to suggest that “there is zero reason to view [this judicial slate] as some sort of concession to Senator Feinstein or Senator Harris.” No one outside the White House Counsel’s Office and perhaps the two California senators’ offices can claim to know for sure, but surely there is some reason to view Bumatay’s exclusion from the Ninth Circuit slate as a weak-kneed caving to the California senators’ threat of a “blue slip” veto.

And yet, ironically, The Sacramento Bee reports that new Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham has indicated his stance that, “he [will] continue to honor the so-called ‘blue slip’ tradition when it comes to lower, district court judges, but would not apply that rule to circuit court judges.” Put another way, the White House’s new compromise slate of Ninth Circuit nominees makes up-and-coming conservative star Bumatay uniquely vulnerable to a unilateral veto from either Dianne Feinstein or Kamala Harris.

Let us then say what we really should not need to say: Under no circumstances whatsoever should this White House — which has better mastered the art of judicial nominations than any Republican White House in the Federalist Society era, arguably has not done anything as consistently well as it has handled judicial nominations, and which stands little chance of leading the passage of any notable legislation with a newly Democratic-controlled House of Representatives — be negotiating, especially in a post-Brett Kavanaugh fiasco world, with hostile Democratic Senators. And this is doubly true when the Senator with whom Pat Cipollone’s office is negotiating, behind closed doors, is perhaps the leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.

Again, conservatives across the country ought to be able to hear Miguel Estrada howling in agony. Unless Lindsey Graham further alters prevailing Senate Judiciary Committee practice with respect to “blue slips,” Pat Cipollone and the White House Counsel’s Office have just given Kamala Harris a golden opportunity to single-handedly nuke the aspiring judicial career of a 40-year-old, openly gay, Filipino-American — who happens to be, by all accounts, a rock-ribbed jurisprudential originalist.

In what world is this a good play for conservatives? In what world is this what the White House ought to be doing?

With Democrats controlling the House but Republicans retaining control of the Senate, now is the worst possible time for the White House to make capitulatory overtures on judicial nominations. One can be as staunchly opposed to judicial supremacy — and as generally opposed to judicial power run amok — as I am while still firmly believing that a commitment to selecting solid, young conservative judges is still an absolutely necessary item for the White House to prioritze. Indeed, this is even truer in our Orwellian judicial supremacist status quo, wherein the idiosyncratic diktats of judges are unfortunately treated by the political and legal clerisy as promulgating broader political principles for the body politic. I would know — I recently clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and I saw first-hand how much jurisprudentially and ideologically solid judges can affect three-judge panel and en banc votes alike.

Whether we operate in a system of judicial supremacy or the true tripartite separation of powers system the Framers devised, then, the quality of judicial nominations matters — a lot. Conservatives ought to settle for nothing less than consistently stellar judicial nominees from this White House. And given what has just happened to Patrick Bumatay, we ought to be vigilant and on guard.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Issues Executive Order to Eliminate Common Core

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has announced an executive order to eliminate the Common Core Standards – which were rebranded in the state as the Florida Standards.

Citing the frustration of parents he heard while campaigning for governor, DeSantis, a Republican, said during a press conference Thursday at Ida S. Baker High School in Cape Coral:

I had a lot of parents who were frustrated because they didn’t understand some of the math. So, let’s try to get this right. We want to be very high quality, we want to demand excellence, but I think we want to do that in a way that’s responsive to some of the concerns we’ve had over the many number of years.

A report at WWSB noted that DeSantis would be instructing Florida’s education commissioner to “provide a road map to Florida-based standards, eliminating Common Core, as well as having the commissioner determine how to increase the quality of instructional curriculum, streamlining testing to measure success not teach to a test, and identifying ways to make civics education a priority in Florida.”

“You really need to understand what makes America the country it is,” DeSantis said, adding:

We’re not a country where everyone has the same religious denomination or the same ethnic heritage. What unites, or what’s supposed to, is the ideas and certain principles that the country was founded on, that you see reflected in the Constitution, that have really been the focal points for a lot of the great debates we’ve had in the country’s history.

“I think it’s important that when we’re sending some of these students out, they’re not only prepared for a career or for higher education, they’re prepared to discharge the duties of citizenship,” the governor said.

The executive order states the state education commissioner must complete his review and submit it to the governor for approval by January 1, 2020.

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Colonization Of The Americas Killed So Many People That Earth Cooled Down

Global warming can be reversed by killing people. Via Daily Mail: Mass deaths resulting from America’s colonisation caused the atmosphere to cool down. Experts believe the influx of Europeans and the outbreak of war in the 15th Century sparked an environmental shift which literally lowered the local temperature. This is because swathes of agricultural land […]

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Undocumented Pharmacist At Three Bay Area Walgreens Stores Filled Over 745K Prescriptions

Providing a service at a lower cost. Via KRON: California officials say a woman who dispensed some 745,000 prescriptions at three Walgreens stores over a decade was never licensed as a pharmacist. Kim T. Le also gave vaccinations, ordered medications, counseled patients on prescriptions and supervised pharmacy technicians from 2006 to 2017 in the San […]

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Ben Shapiro: Recent Abortion Bills Blow Left’s ‘A Baby Is Not a Baby’ Abortion ‘Argument to Smithereens’

On his daily Facebook Live podcast “The Ben Shapiro Show” Thursday, host and Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Wire Ben Shapiro called out the left on their recent legislative proposals on abortion, saying that the recent abortion bills blow the left’s “a baby is not a baby” abortion “argument to smithereens.”

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Petition to Remove Gov. Northam Gathers Steam After Medical School Yearbook Page Shows Men in Blackface, KKK Robe

A picture from Democrat Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook surfaced on Friday showing two men, one in a KKK hood and robe and one in ‘blackface’ on the same page as Northam.

The photo was first published by Big League Politics on Friday and later confirmed by other outlets such as WaPo and The Virginian Pilot.

It is unclear who the two men in costume are.

One half of the page shows Ralph Northam wearing a suit jacket and a tie, a photo of him in a cowboy hat and boots and another of him leaning up against a convertible.

Under the picture of the men in blackface and the KKK robe is the caption:  “There are more old drunks than old doctors in this world so I think I’ll have another beer.”

The photo of Northam surfaced days after he endorsed infanticide.

A petition to remove Governor Northam gathered steam on Friday citing his support for infanticide and yearbook photo of him possibly in a KKK robe or blackface:

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam showed the world today that he is completely unfit for office after supporting a bill that would allow a woman to murder her child AFTER it is born and breathing on its own. It is time for us to let our voices be heard and show the world that this will not be tolerated.

UPDATE: On Friday 2/1 photos emerged from his college yearbook showing the Governor posing in blackface and with the KKK. It’s tome to let our voices be heard and have him removed from office. Demand that he resign now!

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Trump Nominations Begin to Remake the Liberal 9th Circuit

President Donald Trump is moving to make over the liberal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which has delivered some of the most stinging judicial setbacks to his agenda.

Trump announced three nominations this week to the San Francisco-based appeals court, which covers California, Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and the eastern part of Washington state. Earlier this month, the president renominated two other judges for the 9th Circuit.

“We’re very happy to have these extraordinary nominees,” Carrie Severino, chief counsel for the Judicial Crisis Network, told The Daily Signal. “It doesn’t change the [9th Circuit] majority to Republican nominees. But when we are talking about future three-judge panels, the odds are a lot better.”

Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., will oversee the confirmation process for the nominees and said he hopes for bipartisanship.

“I’m very supportive of the nominees submitted by President Trump to serve on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals,” Graham said in a prepared statement.

“These are highly qualified nominees and I am hopeful they will receive wide bipartisan support,” Graham said. “These nominations continue a trend by the Trump administration of selecting highly qualified men and women to serve on the federal bench.”

For the 9th Circuit, Trump announced his intent Wednesday to nominate Daniel A. Bress, 39, a lawyer with the firm of Kirkland & Ellis LLP; Daniel P. Collins, a former associate deputy U.S. attorney general who now is in private practice; and Kenneth Kiyul Lee, 44, a former associate counsel to President George W. Bush, also now in private practice. All three men are from California.

Bress and Collins both clerked for the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. Trump initially nominated Collins last year.

Trump nominated last year, and this month renominated,  Federal Magistrate Judge Bridget S. Bade, 53, of Arizona, and Eric D. Miller, 44, of Washington state, a partner in the law firm of Perkins Coie who works in its Seattle office.

Trump initially also nominated Patrick Bumatay, 40, a federal prosecutor in California and former Justice Department lawyer during the George W. Bush administration, to the 9th Circuit.

But on Wednesday, Trump instead nominated Bumatay as a judge on a lower court, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.

The 9th Circuit has six vacancies–three in California and one each in Arizona, Oregon, and Washington. Filling these vacancies would bring the balance to 13 judges appointed by Republican presidents and 16 appointed by Democratic presidents.

The liberal 9th Circuit–sometimes called the “9th Circus” by conservatives–is among the appeals courts whose decisions are most overturned by the Supreme Court. However, some contend the court has become more moderate in recent years.

In November, Trump bashed the appeals court, which was set to be the next court to hear a case on an administration immigration policy.

“It’s a disgrace what happens in the 9th Circuit,” Trump said in November, adding: “Every case [opposing administration policy] gets filed in the 9th Circuit. We get beaten, and then we end up having to go to the Supreme Court. Like the travel ban that we won. The 9th Circuit, we are going to have to look at that.”

Because it is the largest circuit court in the United States, some lawmakers have sought to break up the 9th Circuit into smaller circuits. But this would take an act of Congress.  

“It is no coincidence that litigants run to the 9th Circuit to challenge the president’s actions, where activist judges are more likely to apply a different standard of law,” Severino told The Daily Signal.

Trump’s nominees won’t change the composition of the court, since most of the vacancies on the court are a result of retiring Republican appointees, said Elizabeth Slattery, a legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation. But filling the vacancies is a positive step for Trump, she said.

“As there are more vacancies on the 9th Circuit, the Trump administration will have more chances to put conservative jurists in place of liberal judicial activism that we have seen for decades,” Slattery told The Daily Signal. “It is the largest by far of all the circuit courts. There have been efforts to break it up, which judges have resisted.”

Currently, the 6th Circuit has the highest percentage of cases overturned by the Supreme Court, Slattery said, but the 9th Circuit hears the highest number of cases.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., released a joint statement opposing Trump’s nominations of Collins and Lee.

“We made clear our opposition to these individuals and told the White House we wanted to work together to come to consensus on a new package of nominees,” the two California Democrats said in a formal statement, adding:

In fact, we even identified candidates selected by the White House we could support to demonstrate our willingness to work cooperatively. Unfortunately, the White House is moving forward with three nominees to a circuit court who have no judicial experience. The White House’s decision to push these nominees fails to secure consensus on the circuit court.

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board raised questions earlier this week about whether Trump was pulling his punches on nominees to the 9th Circuit by deferring to Feinstein and Harris. The Journal noted the two senators were in close contact with the new White House counsel, Pat Cipollone, and wrote:

Ms. Feinstein and Ms. Harris requested ‘that the White House work with us to reach an agreement on a consensus package of nominees.’ The Democrats want to pick one name from the White House list, one from their own, and a third consensus nominee. …

The hope seems to be that a White House concession would somehow produce less resistance to Mr. Trump’s nominees. And this would be useful if the president gets the chance to replace, say, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. It’s hard to believe someone could think this is plausible.  …

A concession to them now on nominees would rightly be seen as political weakness. It would concede influence that neither senator has earned and set a precedent for other Democrats who would demand similar consideration.

After reaction from several conservatives to the Journal editorial, the White House announced Trump’s intent to nominate the three men who weren’t previously judges to the 9th Circuit. Many expressed concern that the president’s staff, namely Cipollone, was working too closely with Democrats.

However, after the White House announced the nominations, the Republican National Lawyers Association applauded in a blog post.

“This was the first major test of new White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and he has passed with flying colors,” the GOP group said.

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