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Dear Federalist Society, Here's A Thought On This Ryan Bounds Thing

We know who the White House should nominate next.

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Howdy, FedSoc! So, listen, you had a bad day. That Ryan Bounds nomination was supposed to secure Judge O’Scannlain’s seat for decades to come. And it all fell apart over some college trolling. If you’re looking for another nominee to take that seat, we’ve got the right guy here. He was also, just like Bounds, an O’Scannlain clerk!

We already outlined why tapping David Lat made sense when Judge Kozinski resigned, but now that we’re talking about replacing Lat’s judge, it makes even more sense. You can even own the libs by putting up someone who has an infinitely more expansive paper trail of op-eds to scour and that, while occasionally saucy, is not as troubling as the stuff Bounds wrote back in school.

Go back and read the whole argument linked above, but if you’re in a hurry, here’s the crux:

I put myself in the shoes of a White House vetter — one operating in the new world where GOP Senators are growing weary of bad picks and Doug Jones will sit in Alabama’s seat — and tried to consider potential nominees who meet all of their existing parameters except happen to be actually qualified and palatable to at least some Democrats.

What I came up with was a FedSoc lifer under the age of 50. A former Ninth Circuit clerk — who literally wrote the book on that court (affiliate link) — a former federal prosecutor, and Biglaw associate — and yet one who has put some distance between that experience and today to provide just enough “outsider” appeal. He reads about abstention doctrines for fun!

You’re running out of time before the Midterms. Get this done.

Earlier: Picking Judge Kozinski’s Replacement — The Perfect Nominee Right Under Our Noses

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