ruffled feathers at first<\/a>, and most have shown themselves to be \u201cpretty conservative and pretty hard nosed,\u201d said Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond School of Law. <\/p>\nTheir ranks include the former Hawaii Atty. Gen. Judge Mark J. Bennett, as well as the circuit\u2019s first openly gay member, Judge Patrick J. Bumatay. <\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s appellate appointees helped deliver him several controversial recent decisions, including the finding in June that Trump had broad discretion to deploy the military on American streets. Another 9th Circuit ruling this month found that the administration could all-but eliminate the country\u2019s refugee program via an indefinite \u201cpause.\u201d <\/p>\n
But they\u2019ve also clashed sharply with the Justice Department\u2019s attorneys, even in cases where the appellate panel ultimately sided with the administration. <\/p>\n
That\u2019s what the president is trying to avoid this time around \u2014 particularly with his picks headed in the west, experts said. <\/p>\n
\u201cPeople on the far right are pushing [Trump] to have people who will be \u2018courageous\u2019 judges \u2014 in other words, do things that are really unpopular that Trump likes,\u201d Tobias said. <\/p>\n
Tung may fit the bill. In addition to his crypto chops and avowed support for constitutional originalism, he has been an ardent defender of religious liberty and an opponent of affirmative action. He shoots competitively as part of the International Defensive Pistol Assn. <\/p>\n
Both Tung and his wife Emily Lataif have close ties to the anti-abortion movement. Tung worked extensively with the architect of Texas\u2019 heartbeat bill; Lataif interned for the Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion policy group that seeks to make IUDs and emergency contraception illegal and opposes many forms of in-vitro fertilization. <\/p>\n
\u201cEmily is the epitome of grace under pressure, as was evidenced … when she and Eric had to evacuate their home during the California wildfires, only days after welcoming their first child,\u201d Severino said. \u201cShe\u2019s worked at the highest levels, from the White House to the executive team at Walmart, and her talent is matched only by her kindness and love for her family.\u201d<\/p>\n
When asked by Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware whether he believed IVF was protected by the Constitution, Tung declined to answer. <\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t the only question the nominee ducked. Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee accused Tung of giving only \u201csham answers\u201d to their inquiries, both in chambers and through written follow-ups. <\/p>\n
After pressing him repeatedly for his position on landmark cases including Obergefell vs. Hodges and Lawrence vs. Texas \u2014 privacy right precedents Justice Clarence Thomas wrote should be reconsidered after the fall of Roe vs. Wade \u2014 Sen. Adam Schiff pushed the nominee for his opinion on Loving vs. Virginia, the 1967 case affirming interracial marriage. <\/p>\n
\u201cWas that wrongly decided?\u201d the California lawmaker asked the aspiring judge. <\/p>\n
\u201cSenator, my wife and I are an interracial couple, so if that case were wrongly decided I would be in big trouble,\u201d Tung said. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re willing to tell us you believe Loving was correctly decided, but you\u2019re not willing to say the other decisions were correctly decided,\u201d Schiff said. \u201cThat seems less originalist and more situational.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He\u2019s never held public office or donned a judge\u2019s robes, but an arch-conservative Los Angeles County attorney is…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":248669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[71065,131981,1582,276,131980,6517,281,6362,131979,6616,2961,3228,224,5337,92222,35855,1807,131982,277,131978],"class_list":{"0":"post-248668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-9th-circuit","9":"tag-busy-circuit","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-california-senator","13":"tag-case","14":"tag-court","15":"tag-crypto","16":"tag-eric-tung","17":"tag-judge","18":"tag-la","19":"tag-law","20":"tag-los-angeles","21":"tag-losangeles","22":"tag-nomination","23":"tag-nominee","24":"tag-president-trump","25":"tag-public-office","26":"tag-trump","27":"tag-tung"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115253116077442259","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}