{"id":26901,"date":"2017-12-15T14:22:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T14:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26901"},"modified":"2017-12-15T14:22:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T14:22:23","slug":"how-about-extreme-vetting-of-judicial-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26901","title":{"rendered":"How about &#8216;extreme vetting&#8217; of judicial nominees?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/federalcourtsimmigration.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26902\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/federalcourtsimmigration-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/federalcourtsimmigration-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/federalcourtsimmigration.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald John Trump wants to employ &#8220;extreme vetting&#8221; of immigrants seeking entry into the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>Fine, but how about vetting nominees to the federal bench, Mr. President? I mean, at least a <em>cursory<\/em> vetting might enable the president to nominate men and women who know certain basics about the law.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Peterson sat before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee this week and managed to utterly fluff simple questions about how he would apply certain legal tenets. He has been nominated to a spot on the U.S. Circuit Court in the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>He, um, didn&#8217;t do well at his hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/trump-judicial-nominee-fumbles-basic-questions-about-the-law\/ar-BBGLHIs?li=BBmkt5R&amp;ocid=spartanntp\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peterson has never tried a case. Senators asked him about his criminal law trial experience. None. His civil trial experience. None.<\/p>\n<p>The video of Peterson stumbling and bumbling his way through the excruciating committee interview has gone viral, which is a rarity in itself, given that judicial nominee hearings usually aren&#8217;t the stuff of social media tittering.<\/p>\n<p>The president has boasted of his administration running like a &#8220;fine-tuned machine.&#8221; Mr. President, a fine-tuned machine wouldn&#8217;t present judicial candidates who cannot answer basic questions from the men and women who must approve these nominations.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald John Trump wants to employ &#8220;extreme vetting&#8221; of immigrants seeking entry into the United States of America. Fine, but how about vetting nominees to the federal bench, Mr. President? I mean, at least a cursory vetting might enable the president to nominate men and women who know certain basics about the law. Matthew Peterson &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26901\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How about &#8216;extreme vetting&#8217; of judicial nominees?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1424,6929,1708,7471,4213,5051],"class_list":["post-26901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-extreme-vetting","tag-federal-judiciary","tag-judicial-nominations","tag-senate-judiciary-committee","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26903,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26901\/revisions\/26903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}