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12-15-2017, 10:53 PM
Everybody is cringing at a judicial nominee's inability to answer basic legal questions
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On Wednesday, the Senate judiciary committee questioned Trump's district judge nominees. Things got awkward real quick.*
Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) initiated a line of questioning that revealed that one nominee, Matthew S. Peterson, doesn't know the first thing about the workings, laws, and procedures necessary for running a courtroom.
SEE ALSO: Gross bacon tweet comes back to haunt this Trump nominee (http://mashable.com/2017/11/15/trump-nominee-don-willett-grilled-over-bacon-tweet/)
The world got a front seat to the interrogation when Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) tweeted the awkward exchange. He summed it all up with one painfully accurate phrase: Hoo-boy.
MUST WATCH: Republican @SenJohnKennedy (https://twitter.com/SenJohnKennedy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) asks one of @realDonaldTrump (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)’s US District Judge nominees basic questions of law & he can’t answer a single one. Hoo-boypic.twitter.com/fphQx2o1rc (https://t.co/fphQx2o1rc)
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) December 15, 2017 (https://twitter.com/SenWhitehouse/status/941484131757838337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/15/federal-judge-nominee-awkward-questions-cringe-kennedy/)
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On Wednesday, the Senate judiciary committee questioned Trump's district judge nominees. Things got awkward real quick.*
Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) initiated a line of questioning that revealed that one nominee, Matthew S. Peterson, doesn't know the first thing about the workings, laws, and procedures necessary for running a courtroom.
SEE ALSO: Gross bacon tweet comes back to haunt this Trump nominee (http://mashable.com/2017/11/15/trump-nominee-don-willett-grilled-over-bacon-tweet/)
The world got a front seat to the interrogation when Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) tweeted the awkward exchange. He summed it all up with one painfully accurate phrase: Hoo-boy.
MUST WATCH: Republican @SenJohnKennedy (https://twitter.com/SenJohnKennedy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) asks one of @realDonaldTrump (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)’s US District Judge nominees basic questions of law & he can’t answer a single one. Hoo-boypic.twitter.com/fphQx2o1rc (https://t.co/fphQx2o1rc)
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) December 15, 2017 (https://twitter.com/SenWhitehouse/status/941484131757838337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/15/federal-judge-nominee-awkward-questions-cringe-kennedy/)
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