Two of President Trump's nominees for life-time, federal judge appointments have been blocked by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The reason? They were both deemed unqualified.
Initially, the American Bar Association's vetting committee had given them both a "not qualified" rating. One is the man I wrote about before who has practiced law for only three years and has never tried a case in court. It later turned out that he had not disclosed the fact that he is married to the chief of staff for President Trump's chief White House Lawyer, Don McGahan.
The other one has a rather checkered past, having conducted a blog that extolled the "first KKK," supposedly one that had a good purpose before they turned bad. There were other unsavory factors like this, which didn't seem to have any offsetting strengths as a legal scholar or a judicial expert.
Does the Trump administration not vet these people? Or do they just not care, as long as they can pass the test to vote the Trump way? I think that field day is over. After Alabama, the declining approval ratings, the infighting, and the Mueller investigation -- things are going from bad to worse. And some of the senators are not willing to keep playing the Trump game.
Ralph
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