President Trump’s Long List Of Unqualified And Radical Judicial Nominees

Senate Democrats
Nov 7 · 2 min read

Over the past three years, President Trump has routinely nominated and Senate Republicans have confirmed federal judicial nominees who are unqualified and radical.

These are judges on the very extremes of jurisprudence; right-wing ideologues whose views cut against the majority of Americans on nearly every issue.

Judges who oppose:

  • Roe v. Wade and a woman’s constitutional right to make her own medical decisions
  • Legal protections for LGBTQ+ Americans
  • Commonsense gun safety laws
  • Environmental protections
  • Collective bargaining rights
  • Fair access to the ballot box and voting rights

The list of unqualified nominees is so long that for the sake of time, let’s only consider nominations from the past three weeks.

Judges like Justin Walker, who has never tried a case and was deemed “unqualified” to serve as a judge by the American Bar Association.

And was confirmed last week to the Western District of Kentucky.

Judges like Sarah Pitlyk, who has also never tried a case, examined a witness, or picked a jury.

And is under consideration for a seat in the Eastern District of Missouri.

Or Judges like Lawrence Van Dyke, who the American Bar Association found that interviewees with experience with Mr. Van Dyke said he was “arrogant, lazy, an ideologue, and lacking knowledge of the day-to-day practice including procedural rules.”

And was nominated by President Trump to the Ninth District Court of Appeals.

In some cases, President Trump’s nominees have been so extreme and overtly racist that Senate Republicans have rejected them outright.

This record is what President Trump calls an accomplishment.

And while President Trump and Leader McConnell continue to celebrate unqualified judicial nominees, they have hardly a legislative accomplishment to name.

The truth is, when it comes to judicial picks, President Trump and Senate Republicans should be ashamed of their record.

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News from leadership staff of Senate Democrats. Edited by @SenSchumer’s staff.

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