The following article by Eleanor Clift was posted on the Daily Beast website December 29, 2017:
Republicans are racing to fill as many lifetime appointments as they can with as little scrutiny as possible ahead of next year’s elections.
The White House had three of its judicial nominees withdraw this month—and it wasn’t because they wanted to spend more time with their families.
Two were bloggers whose inflammatory and discriminatory posts caught up with them. The third was humiliated on national television when he couldn’t answer basic questions about the law and had to concede that he had no trial experience, generally a prerequisite for a lifetime appointment on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Continue reading “Trump’s Judges: White, Male, and Unprepared to Be Questioned”