Matthew Petersen, a nominee to the federal judiciary, has withdrawn from consideration days after a video clip showed him unable to answer basic questions about legal procedure, the White House confirmed Monday.
Petersen, nominated for a seat on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, is the third Trump judicial pick to withdraw in the past week amid criticism … about their qualifications.
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The video of Petersen that went viral Thursday captured five minutes of pointed questioning by Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-La.) at Petersen’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee the day before.
—The Washington Post
The system may not be completely broken after all.
December 19, 2017
thank heavens.
it’s apparently harder to replace the “swamp” with qualified people than he thought it was.
bluff and swagger holds no grounds in the law.
he can tweet about it all he wants to. even he is bound by it.
I doubt very much that he wants to drain the swamp. It sounded good when he said it during the campaign — he was playing to the crowd.
The optics for this guy were certainly not good, the little I saw of it — embarrassing inability to answer pertinent questions.
Yes, the questions were legitimate and he was clueless.
I refrain from commenting as I do not know enough about the subject.
You might want to click the link and see the video. It is self-explanatory.
I saw the interview on CNN. It was embarrassing. What was Trump thinking? Not thinking, would be the answer!
Trump has gotten a lot of judges approved, so maybe he might actually learn something from this?