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InTheLight

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Watch this painful exchange between Sen John Kennedy (R-La) and US federal district court judge nominee for the District of Columbia, Matthew Spencer Petersen. He can't answer a single question. Again, he is nominated for federal district judgeship.

KENNEDY: Have any of you not tried a case to verdict in a courtroom?

(PETERSEN RAISES HIS HAND)

KENNEDY: Mr. Petersen, have you ever tried a jury trial?

PETERSEN: I have not.

KENNEDY: Civil?

PETERSEN: No.

KENNEDY: Criminal?

PETERSEN: No.

KENNEDY: Bench?

PETERSEN: No.

KENNEDY: State or federal court?

PETERSEN: I have not.

KENNEDY: Have you ever taken a deposition?

PETERSEN: I was involved in taking depositions when I was an associate at Wiley Rein when I first came out of law school. But that was --

KENNEDY: How many depositions?

PETERSEN: I’d be struggling to remember.

KENNEDY: Less than 10?

PETERSEN: Yes.

KENNEDY: Less than 5?

PETERSEN: (Pauses) Probably somewhere in that range.

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Reynolds

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InTheLight said:
Watch this painful exchange between Sen John Kennedy (R-La) and US federal district court judge nominee for the District of Columbia, Matthew Spencer Petersen. He can't answer a single question. Again, he is nominated for federal district judgeship.

KENNEDY: Have any of you not tried a case to verdict in a courtroom?

(PETERSEN RAISES HIS HAND)

KENNEDY: Mr. Petersen, have you ever tried a jury trial?

PETERSEN: I have not.

KENNEDY: Civil?

PETERSEN: No.

KENNEDY: Criminal?

PETERSEN: No.

KENNEDY: Bench?

PETERSEN: No.

KENNEDY: State or federal court?

PETERSEN: I have not.

KENNEDY: Have you ever taken a deposition?

PETERSEN: I was involved in taking depositions when I was an associate at Wiley Rein when I first came out of law school. But that was --

KENNEDY: How many depositions?

PETERSEN: I’d be struggling to remember.

KENNEDY: Less than 10?

PETERSEN: Yes.

KENNEDY: Less than 5?

PETERSEN: (Pauses) Probably somewhere in that range.

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He is young and politically conservative. That's honestly all I care about.
 
InTheLight

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Reynolds said:
He is young and politically conservative. That's honestly all I care about.
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Really? C'mon now. This guy is going to be a federal district judge. You want conservatives yes, but ones with good judgment too, not just conservatives. This guy has no experience being a judge. He's a commissioner for the Federal Elections Commission.

Realize that the cross examination by Sen. Kennedy is the closest this guy has been to a courtroom and the guy failed.
 
Reynolds

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InTheLight said:
Really? C'mon now. This guy is going to be a federal district judge. You want conservatives yes, but ones with good judgment too, not just conservatives. This guy has no experience being a judge. He's a commissioner for the Federal Elections Commission.

Realize that the cross examination by Sen. Kennedy is the closest this guy has been to a courtroom and the guy failed.
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Does not really matter. He is not arguing cases. Judges are not usually your best and brightest. Your best attorneys would take huge pay cut a to move to the bench. The law clerks dig up the case law and write the opinions anyway.
 
Earth Wind and Fire

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InTheLight said:
Really? C'mon now. This guy is going to be a federal district judge. You want conservatives yes, but ones with good judgment too, not just conservatives. This guy has no experience being a judge. He's a commissioner for the Federal Elections Commission.

Realize that the cross examination by Sen. Kennedy is the closest this guy has been to a courtroom and the guy failed.
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Wow...just Wow!
 
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InTheLight

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Bro. Curtis said:
Dude sums it up better than I can....

I Have Almost Nothing Bad To Say About Matthew Spencer Petersen

He looks pretty solid. And only an anti-trump neo-con or a liberal would seize on this one sided exchange as proof of anything.
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Did you actually read the article?

Some excerpts:
An enormous amount of a federal judge's job is both facility with the law and judgment, borne of experience, about how litigation works. ...Judges [require] — lacking a better term — wisdom — that is, years of experience seeing the law applied to facts. Many of the most important and momentous rulings involve discretionary decisions that call for a great deal of experience: how much is reasonable to award this party in attorney fees in this civil rights case? Was this person's conduct "reasonable"? How long should a bank robbery trial take? How many witnesses should I let the plaintiff call to prove a particular fact? What's a reasonable amount of time for discovery in this case? Is this piece of evidence too prejudicial — that is, does its tendency to inflame the jury outweigh its probative value? How many times should I tell this jury to go back again and try to reach a consensus before declaring a mistrial? Is that expert qualified? Should I excuse that juror for cause?.

He's never tried a case and never tried a motion. These things don't make him an inadequate person. They don't even make him an inadequate lawyer — there are many law jobs involving niche issues that do not require facility with litigation. But they make him manifestly unqualified to be a federal judge.
 
InTheLight

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church mouse guy said:
The country had this debate in the 1960s when JFK appointed his inexperienced brother as Attorney General. Look at Hillary--she was just the trophy wife of an Arkansas politician....
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You don't have to go back 55 years. Just look at Ivanka and Jared Kushner. They got White House jobs. Kushner is in charge of negotiating peace in the Middle East. Yeah, he's qualified to do that...
 
church mouse guy

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InTheLight said:
You don't have to go back 55 years. Just look at Ivanka and Jared Kushner. They got White House jobs. Kushner is in charge of negotiating peace in the Middle East. Yeah, he's qualified to do that...
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Jared Kushner's family is interesting. Having worked in a downtown real estate office in a menial capacity, my personal opinion is that the office real estate business is bad. Kushner is evidently close to his father-in-law and so his family's floundering building in New York City has been left in other hands. I am not too critical of this appointment because I myself prefer private pleasure to public service. In the case of Bobby Kennedy, he gave organized crime some trouble in spite of his total inexperience. Harding said that the White House is a prison and it is not your enemies that do you in but your friends (did I get that right) so I guess it could have been better.
 
Bro. Curtis

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InTheLight said:
Did you actually read the article?

Some excerpts:
An enormous amount of a federal judge's job is both facility with the law and judgment, borne of experience, about how litigation works. ...Judges [require] — lacking a better term — wisdom — that is, years of experience seeing the law applied to facts. Many of the most important and momentous rulings involve discretionary decisions that call for a great deal of experience: how much is reasonable to award this party in attorney fees in this civil rights case? Was this person's conduct "reasonable"? How long should a bank robbery trial take? How many witnesses should I let the plaintiff call to prove a particular fact? What's a reasonable amount of time for discovery in this case? Is this piece of evidence too prejudicial — that is, does its tendency to inflame the jury outweigh its probative value? How many times should I tell this jury to go back again and try to reach a consensus before declaring a mistrial? Is that expert qualified? Should I excuse that juror for cause?.

He's never tried a case and never tried a motion. These things don't make him an inadequate person. They don't even make him an inadequate lawyer — there are many law jobs involving niche issues that do not require facility with litigation. But they make him manifestly unqualified to be a federal judge.
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Yup. A bit critical. It sure don’t say he’s a dummy. It says the ABA considered him qualified for the job.
 
FollowTheWay

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Bro. Curtis said:
Dude sums it up better than I can....

I Have Almost Nothing Bad To Say About Matthew Spencer Petersen

He looks pretty solid. And only an anti-trump neo-con or a liberal would seize on this one sided exchange as proof of anything.
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This was a one-sided exchange because the nominee couldn't answer any of the questions asked about the law. Why not just walk out on the street and choose the next person you see who has a "Make America Great Again" hat or shirt?
 
carpro

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InTheLight said:
Watch this painful exchange between Sen John Kennedy (R-La) and US federal district court judge nominee for the District of Columbia, Matthew Spencer Petersen. He can't answer a single question. Again, he is nominated for federal district judgeship.

KENNEDY: Have any of you not tried a case to verdict in a courtroom?

(PETERSEN RAISES HIS HAND)

KENNEDY: Mr. Petersen, have you ever tried a jury trial?

PETERSEN: I have not.

KENNEDY: Civil?

PETERSEN: No.

KENNEDY: Criminal?

PETERSEN: No.

KENNEDY: Bench?

PETERSEN: No.

KENNEDY: State or federal court?

PETERSEN: I have not.
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Sounds a lot like Elena Kagan.
 
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