Sen. Tim Scott helps block Trump administration nominee

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Sen. Tim Scott helps block Trump administration nominee
By Emma Dumain edumain@mcclatchydc.com

Sen. Tim Scott is known for being a happy warrior in the Republican party, but has shown he’s unafraid to stand up to GOP leaders.

On Thursday, the South Carolina Republican helped force the withdrawal of a nominee for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals whose racially-charged academic writings from decades earlier mocked multiculturalism and cultural sensitivity.

Though Scott has voted for most of President Donald Trump’s most controversial appointees — including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch — it’s the third time since the start of Trump’s presidency he has successfully helped block a nominee from advancing.

Read more at: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article215178915.html

Read more to see what the nominee, Bounds wrote. Is it bad? Is it any worse than one might hear on some radio talk shows? The link has some examples.

More from Slate:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/republican-senator-tim-scott-sinks-donald-trumps-nomination-of-ryan-bounds.html

Bounds wrote too per the Slate link:

•  some campus communities think that the “opponent” is “the white male and his coterie of meanspirited lackeys: ‘oreos,’ ‘twinkies,’ ‘coconuts,’ and the like.”

• “Expelling students [found guilty of rape] is probably not going to contribute a great deal toward a rape victim’s recovery; there is no moral imperative to risk egregious error in doing so.”