Dems trying to "Kavanaugh" Trumps judicial nominee

[Revmitchell]

Several attorneys interviewed by the American Bar Association for their evaluation of President Trump’s Ninth Circuit judicial nominee Lawrence VanDyke say they were stunned when they read what turned out to be a scathing assessment declaring VanDyke “Not Qualified” to sit on the federal bench.

VanDyke broke down in tears during Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing when he addressed and denied the letter’s suggestion that he would be unfair to LGBTQ groups. The ABA also cited accusations against the nominee of arrogance, laziness and overall incompetence from unnamed associates. Afterward, some in the legal community jumped to VanDyke's defense.


"Absolutely outrageous and couldn't be further from the truth," is how former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt described the characterizations in the ABA's letter. VanDyke served as state solicitor general under Laxalt, a Republican who unsuccessfully ran for governor last year, from 2015 to 2019.

Attorneys interviewed by legal group shocked over scathing review of Trump nominee: 'Absolutely outrageous'

 

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Senate Republicans have put diminishing stock in the ABA's evaluations in recent years. In 2017, the organization deemed Charles Barnes Goodwin and Leonard Steven Grasz "Not Qualified" when Trump nominated them to the Western District of Oklahoma and Eight Circuit Court of Appeals, respectively. The GOP-controlled Senate confirmed both of them.

At VanDyke's hearing, Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., called out the ABA for an alleged agenda and suggested they lose access to judicial nominees as a result.

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board called the organization a “liberal lawyers’ guild” and described their letter as “character assassination” and “a mess of anonymous personal attacks and innuendo.”

Making the same suggestion as Sens. Lee and Hawley, the editorial concluded, “It is free to oppose candidates for ideological reasons, but it ought to be stripped of its privileged role in the confirmation process.”​

 

[Shoostie]

LGBTQ is being used to attempt to drive all Christians from society. It's not enough for a judge to say he'll uphold the laws concerning LGBTQ, he has to bow and declare sodomy to be virtue.