WSJ editorial: A Bad Judges Deal The WH may make concessions to Feinstein and Harris

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Ashley Schapitl, a spokesperson for Feinstein, said in a statement that Feinstein and Harris were "engaged in conversations with the White House about the 9th Circuit and district court vacancies.”

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By Wednesday evening, the White House renominated two of the three 9th Circuit candidates in question — Daniel Collins and Kenneth Lee, according to a source familiar with the situation — but did not intend to renominate Patrick Bumatay, who will be nominated to a seat on the district court in California. Dan Bress, currently a partner at Kirkland and Ellis and a former clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia, will be nominated instead of Bumatay.

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Erick Erickson, the conservative columnist and talk radio host, accused Cipollone of going “behind the President’s back” and “trying to cut a deal that would put more progressives” on the bench. Brent Bozell, the president of the Media Research Center, wrote on Twitter, “POTUS has done a TERRIFIC job with judges. Constitutionalists couldn’t ask for more. Is his staff trying to undermine him to appease leftists in the Senate? They are giving away his strongest achievement!”

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