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Trump Judiciary nominee falls on face in questioning

He was honest about his complete lack of qualifications for the job. That's something. I guess
 
AlbqOwl said:
You'll have to show me evidence. Seems to me that Obama got pretty much every single appointment he put out there.
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LOL. From the Brookings link:

This sudden concern over aggressive blue-slip use—shock a la Captain Renault to find blue slips being used in here—contrasts with aggressive blue slip use under Obama. Senators used their blue slip prerogatives to forestall or veto nominations and give Trump over 100 in-place and announced vacancies, including over 30 that never had nominees.

Negative blue slips produced some
dead-on-arrival Obama nominations, but the more pervasive impact of aggressive blue-slip were no nominations (“what’s the use?”) or extended White House-senator bargaining in search of mutually acceptable, or at least tolerable, nominees.
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100-30 = 70 vacancies with nominations not approved.

And you might remember the SC nominee that never got a hearing? If not, the GOP just decided that in the last year of a presidency, the POTUS no longer gets hearings on SC nominees.

See, also here:

Since taking control of the Senate in early 2015, Republicans have confirmed only 17 federal judges, a historically low number. The Senate confirmed just 11 judges in 2015, the fewest since 1960. There have been only two appellate court judges approved since Republicans took control, with seven appeals court nominations left pending. If the Senate doesn’t confirm any appellate judges this year, it will have confirmed the fewest since the 1897-98 session, when there were just 25 circuit court judges nationwide, compared with 179 now.
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It’s not for lack of nominees that the pace of confirmations has been so slow. There are 87 current vacancies and 61 judicial nominations before the Senate, including Garland’s. Of those, just 20 have cleared the first procedural hurdle, winning approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee. Those 20 nominations are languishing on the Senate floor, awaiting a vote from the full body before the judges can take the bench.
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Etc.
 
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AlbqOwl said:
From your second link:
Barack Obama nominated over three hundred individuals for federal judgeships. Of these nominations, Congress confirmed three hundred and seven judgeships, 173 during the 111th & 112th Congresses[1] and 134 during the 113th Congress.[2]​
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The number Wikipedia cites as over 300, most likely was 399.... More Obama nominations were stalled by the opposition than all prior president's nominations in total:

Harry Reid says 82 presidential nominees have been blocked under President Barack Obama, 86 blocked under all other presidents | PolitiFact

This matters because some of the nominations resulted in multiple cloture efforts. By our calculation, there were actually 68 individual nominees blocked prior to Obama taking office and 79 (so far) during Obama’s term, for a total of 147.
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And we can notice that there is/was some dispute over the graphics, PolitiFact rates this Reid's Statement Mostly True.

It is hard to believe anyone who was paying attention is not aware of the fact that there was an aggressive movement to block Obama's judicial nominees. The right took pride in this, it was a campaign promise in many events.
 
Maybe Trump shouldn't have fired so many before he had appointments lined up to take the positions.

I guess the "your fired" schtick still gets the best of him.
 
In case it was not mentioned: Peterson withdrew his nomination.

And a nice parting shot from the pro-Trump Kennedy:

Kennedy described Petersen as a “really smart” and “decent guy.” “But just because you’ve seen ‘My Cousin Vinny’ doesn’t qualify you to be a federal judge,” he said. “And he has no litigation experience. And my job on the Judiciary Committee is to catch him. I would strongly suggest he not give up his day job.”
 
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