Updates | The Week of December 18, 2017
Derek Reinbold // 12/24/17 //
The recent withdrawal of three judicial nominees is an aberration from President Trump’s large success in nominating young conservation jurists to the federal bench over the last year, write Philip Rucker, Josh Dawsey, and Ashley Parker at WaPo.
- Lambda Legal has released a new report that shows nearly one-third of President Trump’s judicial nominees have anti-LGBT records.
Matthew Peterson, who President Trump nominated for a U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., withdrew his nomination after struggling with questions during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee (Politico).
- Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) told reporters President Trump called him and approved of his questioning of Peterson (Politico).