Daily Caller: Lawrence VanDyke, one of President Donald Trump’s nominees for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, was overcome with emotion before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday as he defended himself against charges that he would treat LGBT litigants unfairly.
The American Bar Association (ABA) issued a scathing review of VanDyke’s nomination on the eve of Wednesday’s hearing, finding he was unqualified for the federal bench based on several factors, including possible prejudice.
“Mr. VanDyke would not say affirmatively that he would be fair to any litigant before him, notably members of the LGBTQ community,” the letter reads. It elsewhere accused VanDyke of arrogance and closed-mindedness.
“I did not say that,” VanDyke told GOP Sen. Josh Hawley of the ABA’s charge. “I do not believe that. It is a fundamental belief of mine that all people are created in the image of God and should be treated with dignity and respect.”
The ABA evaluator who interviewed VanDyke, Marcia Davenport, contributed to one of VanDyke’s opponents during his failed 2014 bid for the Montana Supreme Court.
“It probably explains the totally ad hominem nature of this disgraceful letter,” Hawley said of Davenport’s contribution. read more
We do not need crybabies! Replace him!
Anything less than special privileges and rights that place them above the laws that apply to everyone else is considered unfair to the “LGBTQ community”.
DISQUALIFIED. President should withdraw the nomination.
…We need a FIGHTER, not a weeper, if we wanted tears, John Boehner is available and PLENTY liberal enough to keep the alphabets happy, considering how he was “Obama’s” right-hand man.
…Just IMAGINE where we’d be if our President cried every time someone accused HIM of insensitivity…
I have no idea how these people get up there and subject themselves to that abuse. There’s no pretense of serious questions or honest debate of views, it’s just an excuse to slander, smear and insult those on the hot seat.
It’s a disgraceful and dishonorable display of behavior unfit for any elected official. They are worse now than ever and watching it makes you just want to storm the hearing and beat the living mud out of the scum.
sounds like a comedy central roast!
no jokes, just vulger insults.
“I have no idea how these people get up there and subject themselves to that abuse. There’s no pretense of serious questions or honest debate of views, it’s just an excuse to slander, smear and insult those on the hot seat.”
Tears of rage maybe? Still, showing weakness
during an attack by lying communists is not good.
We do not need another pushover like Roberts who
will do anything to be popular with the news scum.
I fear he will ‘virtue signal’ once he is on the bench to prove that he’s not a ‘bigot.’
Pull the nomination, send him back to the JV.
I’m sure he is a nice guy, and pleasant to be around. Just don’t say anything that makes him cry. Court of Appeals, I don’t think so.
Kavanaugh fought back and was roundly condemned so he tried the “feelings” approach. You can’t win with this crowd.
Meanwhile, over at the 5th circuit, President Trump’s nominee Ozerden is being rejected, in part, because there are too many white men on the 5th circuit. Ozerden is Turkish American. Funny how “those people” are considered “white” when convenient to the lib narrative, and black or brown when that suits them, for example Valarie Jarrett being classified as black.
I say never cry in front of a group of liberals.
Are we not men?