Ryan Wesley Bounds testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearing to be U.S. Circuit judge for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, on May 9. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM.
In a dramatic move Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell withdrew the nomination of President Donald Trump’s pick for the Ninth Circuit, Ryan Bounds, after reports surfaced that his nomination didn’t have enough votes for confirmation.
Bounds, an assistant U.S. attorney in Oregon for the last eight years, was the Trump administration’s first nominee to the Ninth Circuit, named in September to replace Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain, for whom Bounds clerked. O’Scannlain took senior status at the end of 2016.
