• Trump judicial nominee withdraws after humiliating hearing
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[QUOTE="The Hill"]A Trump administration judicial nominee who struggled to answer basic questions about courtroom procedure in a viral video clip withdrew his name from consideration on Monday. Matthew Petersen, who had been tapped to be a judge on the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia, wrote in a letter to President Trump that his nomination had become a "distraction." "I had hoped my nearly two decades of public service might carry more weight than my two worst minutes on television," he wrote. "However, I am no stranger to political realities, and I do not wish to be a continued distraction from the important work of your Administration and the Senate." [B]He is the third of Trump's judicial nominees to be withdrawn in the last week.[/b] ... Kennedy also said that Trump called him over the weekend and expressed support for his work on the Judiciary Committee. "The president called me the day before yesterday. He doesn't interview these guys. He has his staff do it and he said, 'Kennedy, I think you're right. Number two, Mr. Petersen's a really smart guy.' " "The president and I get along fine, and he has told me, 'Kennedy, when some of my guys send somebody over who's not qualified, you do your job," he said. ... [B]Talley, who was nominated to be a federal judge in Alabama, had never tried a case before in court and was rated "unqualified" by the American Bar Association. Mateer, meanwhile, drew fierce criticism for past speeches in which he compared homosexuality to bestiality and described transgender children as a part of "Satan's plan."[/b] ... "It took the nomination of some egregiously underqualified people to make Senate Republicans begin to push back, but this GOP-led Senate has been rubber-stamping unfit judicial nominees for months now," Daniel Goldberg, the group's legal director, said in a statement. "It's time for that irresponsible behavior to stop, and also time for the White House to stop sending up the kind of nominees we're seeing: individuals with inadequate credentials, open hostility to the rights of fellow Americans, or both." [/QUOTE] [url="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/365455-trump-judicial-nominee-withdraws-after-humiliating-hearing"]Source, The Hill[/url] [url="http://youtu.be/c-zvNnFjk3Q"]Video of the questioning[/url] for those who haven't seen it.
A Trump nominee has some sort of conscience? Get the fuck outta here what’s the catch
[QUOTE=grr164;52988162]A Trump nominee have some sort of conscience? Get the fuck outta here what’s the catch[/QUOTE] Maybe not so much a conscience, as he, unlike Trump, realized he was [I]way[/I] out of his depth and resigned.
Better a loyal Republican who knows nothing about his position than a Democrat who actually does. All Trump wants is blind loyalty, he doesn't care if the people he nominates are actually qualified for their position.
Hey just a thought, maybe that American Bar Association isn't some liberal hippy pot group like they keep saying it is, maybe in fact, it might just be the least partisan thing you guys got unlike the fucking Federalist Society which probably approved this guy
Hahah holy shit he couldn't answer a single question properly.
[quote]Mateer, meanwhile, drew fierce criticism for past speeches in which he compared homosexuality to bestiality and described transgender children as a part of "Satan's plan."[/quote] [b]S A T A N ' S P L A N[/b] Also wonder how long it'll be until Mateer is caught having sex with a man and coming out as bisexual or whatever it is that's "hip" among these overly conservative douchebags nowadays.
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