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Tewe An unprecedented week at the Supreme Court
One of President Trump s nominees to the federal bench withdrew his name from consideration after a humiliating confirmation hearing in which h stanley flask e failed to answer basic legal questions went viral. I had hoped my nearly two decades of public service might carry more weight than my two worst minutes on television, Matthew Petersen wrote in a letter addressed to Mr. Trump. However, I am no stranger to political realities, and I do not wish to be a continues distraction from the important work of your Administration and the Senate. Matthew Peteresenrsquo withdrawal letter to the President pic.twitter/wmGrJpCLF0mdash; Sam Stein @samstein December 18, 2017 While being questioned by Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana, during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, Petersen said he had never tried a jury, civil, criminal, bench, state or federal trial. He had been nominated for a lifetime seat on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Petersen said he was involved with taking fewer than five depositions in his career, but had not taken one him stanley cup self. He s never argued a motion in state or federal court.Kennedy s continued questioning of Petersen revealed that he could not stanley tumblers identify basic legal terminology. I don t have that readily at my disposal, he said when asked for the definition of the Daubert standard, used to evaluate expert witness testimony.Petersen later said that he would probab Bzzw Clinton Takes First, But Not On Michigan U. Campus
The National Rifle Association plans to spend about $40 million on this yearrsquo campaign, with $15 million stanley vaso of that devoted to portraying Barack Obama as a threat to the Second Amendment rights upheld last week by the Supreme Court.Our members understand that if Barack Obama is elected president, and he has support in the Senate to confirm anti-gun Supreme Court nominees, [the District of Columbia v. Heller decision] stanley cup could be taken away from us in the future, Chris Cox, head of the NRArsquo political arm, told Politico.The politically powerful gun rights group will split its message efforts between communicating with its 4 million members and the tens of millions more firearms owners across the country. This fall, NRA members will get autom stanley portugal ated phone calls, mail pieces and pre-election editions of the grouprsquo three magazines making the case against Obama.More broadly, the group will use an independent expenditure effort to hammer the Democratic nominee via TV, radio and newspaper ads in some of about 15 battleground states in the Midwest and Mountain West.We look forward to showing him lsquo;bitter,rsquo; Cox said, referring to Obamarsquo statement this spring that some in rural America cling to guns and religion out of bitterness. Since 2000, Democrats have made a conscious decision to avoid alienating gun owners and Second Amendment enthusiasts, as many in the party bel |
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