Incompetent Judicial nominee Matthew Petersen withdraws from consideration
From Buzzfeed.com today.....A Trump Judicial Nominee Who Struggled To Answer Basic Legal Questions Has Withdrawn His Nomination
Matthew Petersen, a member of the Federal Election Commission, is now Trump's third unsuccessful judicial nominee.
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Matthew Petersen, a member of the Federal Election Commission, was nominated for the US District Court for the District of Columbia. Less than a week after his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, when he struggled to answer basic questions about court procedure and the law, he withdrew his nomination and the president accepted the withdrawal, a White House official told BuzzFeed News.
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Petersen wrote that his nomination had become a "distraction" to the administration.
"I had hoped that my nearly two decades of public service might carry more weight than my two worst minutes on television," Petersen wrote. "However, I am no stranger to political realities, and I do not wish to be a continued distraction from the important work of your administration and the Senate." SNIP
Incompetent jerk got busted in public by a republican senator.
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I suspect he was a republican legacy pass along this guy.....
Matthew S. Petersen was nominated to the Federal Election Commission by President George W. Bush on June 12, 2008, and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on June 24, 2008.
From 2005 until his appointment to the Commission, Mr. Petersen served as Republican chief counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. In this capacity, Mr. Petersen provided counsel on issues relating to federal campaign finance and election administration laws as well as the Standing Rules of the Senate.
Prior to this, Mr. Petersen served as counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on House Administration. During his tenure, Mr. Petersen was extensively involved in the crafting of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 ("HAVA"
and the House-Senate negotiations that culminated in HAVA's passage. From 1999 to 2002, Mr. Petersen specialized in election and campaign finance law at the law firm of Wiley Rein LLP in Washington, DC.
Mr. Petersen received his J.D. in 1999 from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was a member of the Virginia Law Review. He graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in philosophy from Brigham Young University in 1996. He also received an A.S. with high honors from Utah Valley State College.
A gift to Orrin Hatch? Still amusing to me a republican senator rolled over him. It was embarrassing to listen to him being questioned at hie hearing.
