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11:55Now PlayingIn this Majority Report clip, we watch a Donald Trump federal judge nominee absolutely botch his hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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-At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, a panel of five Trump nominees for lifetime appointments to federal judgeships were interviewed simultaneously about their qualifications. A video, posted Thursday by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), showed that the process did not go well for one of them.
Matthew S. Petersen, Trump’s pick to be a United States District Judge for the District of Columbia, was the only one who raised his hand when Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) asked if any of the five had “never tried a case to verdict in a courtroom.” He then confessed that he also never participated a jury, criminal, or civil trial, in a state or federal court, had taken less than 10 depositions, and had never argued a motion in state or federal court.---
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