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.
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