#RolandMartinUnfiltered - Unfit Trump Judicial Nod Cries Over Damning Letter From The Bar Association Saying He Is Unqualified

Episode Date: October 31, 2019

Federal appeals court nominee Lawrence J.C. VanDyke broke down in tears during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, reacting to a scathing letter against his confirmation by the American Bar Association. VanDyke also broke down in tears over assertions he harbors animus toward LGBT people. The Bar Association conducted 60 interviews and concluded that VanDyke was "not qualified" for the judicial branch. In the letter, ABA Chair William C. Hubbard said, "Mr. VanDyke's accomplishments are offset by the assessments of interviewees that Mr. VanDyke is arrogant, lazy, an ideologue, and lacking in knowledge of the day-to-day practice including procedural rules.There was a theme that the nominee lacks humility, has an entitlement temperament, does not have an open mind, and does not always have a commitment to being candid and truthful. Watch the 10.30.19 edition of #RolandMartinUnfiltered https://youtu.be/wN1pLTvnqDM - #RolandMartinUnfiltered partner: Life Luxe Jazz Can't make it to Los Cabos for the Life Luxe Jazz Fest? Get your live stream pass at https://gfntv.com/ Life Luxe Jazz is the experience of a lifetime, delivering top-notch music in an upscale destination. The weekend-long event is held at the Omnia Dayclub Los Cabos, which is nestled on the Sea of Cortez in the celebrity playground of Los Cabos, Mexico. For more information visit the website at lifeluxejazz.com. - 📘 Check out #RolandsBookClub and some of his favorite tech gear http://ow.ly/M5zF50uJPam ✅ NOW AVAILABLE: #RolandMartinUnfiltered Merch - https://bit.ly/2VYdQok ✅ Subscribe to the #RolandMartin YouTube channel https://t.co/uzqJjYOukP ✅ Join the #RolandMartinUnfiltered #BringTheFunk Fan Club to support fact-based independent journalism http://ow.ly/VRyC30nKjpY ✅ Join the Roland Martin and #RolandMartinUnfiltered mailing list http://ow.ly/LCvI30nKjuj The Roland S. Martin YouTube channel is a news reporting site covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. - Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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You can make this possible. All right, folks. This is the truth. Federal Appeals Court nominee Lawrence J.C. Van Dyke broke down in tears during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. Why? Because of a scathing letter against his confirmation by the American Bar Association

after it conducted 60 interviews and concluded that he was not qualified for the federal bench. In the letter, ABA Chair William C. Hubbard said Mr. Van Dyke's accomplishments are offset by the assessments of interviewees that Mr. Van Dyke's accomplishments are offset by the assessments of interviewees that Mr. Van Dyke is arrogant, lazy, an ideologue, and lacking in knowledge of the day-to-day practice, including procedural rules.

There was a theme that the nominee lacks humility, has an entitlement temperament, does not have an open mind, and does not always have a commitment to being candid and truthful. Damn. Damn. Y'all should see Monique's face as I was reading. She was like...

Y'all got the video? Y'all got the tears? Damn. There's no video for it. Seriously? Oh, my God. Okay, I just want to go out, Pam. Okay, Monique, I'm going to start with you.

I mean, to do 60 interviews and call this dude lazy. I mean, they just rip. Go ahead. Well, that's the thing. That's why my face was scrunching up, because it's one thing for them to say to give a negative recommendation. You could survive that. But, yeah, I could see why he would bust out crying.

I mean, it's basically saying he does not know how to practice law. And he's like a jackass. I mean, that's what they said about him. And that is, you know, and a liar. Right. And because, I mean, you can take intemperate, Lord, I have appeared before plenty of an intemperate type of judge. I mean, you just wander the halls and find one of those. But doesn't know the basic rules for day-to-day operations. type of judge. I mean, you just wander the halls and find one of those. But

doesn't know the basic rules for day-to-day operations? That's ugly. I mean, Mustafa, there have been multiple Trump nominees who they have said unqualified. I mean, we can never forget the dude who had

never filed a motion, and it was a Republican Senator John Senator Kennedy from Louisiana who was like do you know this no I don't know that one right do you know this no I don't know that one right uh I think we covered that in law school uh and it was embarrassing and it was and what people don't understand is what Trump is doing, first of all, he has no idea who the hell these people are. What he basically said is, white conservative evangelicals, here, y'all pick whoever the hell y'all want.

And the problem is, people like Lindsey Graham and Mike Lee of Utah and Ben Sasse of Nebraska and John Kenny of Louisiana, they pretty much are allowing these people to go through and they don't care because they want to pack the bench with right wing ideologues to sit there for the next 40, 50 years. It's a mockery of the process. You got these folks who an L1 student would know more than many of them do. So, you know, we've got some some real craziness that's going on. And you're

right. It's these senators that continue to approve these folks to be able to move forward. And, you know, unfortunately, the byproduct of that is going to be, you know, these impacts that we continue to see inside of communities. But here's the reality of it. When we say that this person doesn't have the qualifications, we have a president who doesn't have the qualifications that most presidents would have. We have a leader at HUD who has no background in housing. We have a person at the Department of Education who has done everything that they can to, you know, damage, you know, just the basic public education. So this is just, you know, a continuation of the process. Before I go to Erica, y'all know I was not going to allow this segment to go on without finding the video. I requested the video.

The letter also says that you would not commit to being fair to litigants before you, notably members of the LGBTQ community. Can you speak to that? Did you say that you wouldn't be fair to members of the LGBT community? Senator, that was the part of the letter. I did not say that. I apologize. It's all right. I'm sorry. No, I did not say that. I do not believe that.

It is a fundamental belief of mine that all people are created in the image of God. They should all be treated with dignity and respect. Senator. Can you commit today to this committee that you will treat, if confirmed, that you would treat every litigant who came before you with respect and with dignity absolutely senator I would not have allowed myself to be nominated for this position if I did not think I could do that including members of the LGBT community and in any other community that has been historically disadvantaged in this country. Absolutely, Senator.

I'm not an attorney. I just play one on law and order. Um. You say it out loud. You mean it highly and expressly. Right. Oh, no. Um. You didn't hardly even express it. Right. Um... I'm speechless,

because that was a horrid performance. And, um... And again, and I really echo... And I was thinking the same thing that you said, Mustafa, along the lines of that whole kind of, like, rundown, lazy, ideologue, um, not

knowing day-to-day procedure, that sounds like Donald. I mean not knowing day-to-day procedure, that sounds like Donald. I mean, a day-to-day, I believe his day-to-day schedule is, you know, chips, burgers, watching all of the networks. So I agree, too, that it is pretty much par for the course.

Monica, you get final. Listen, the reality is, and I don't know if that man was genuine or not, but his performance right there would upset the president who nominated him. He would not approve of any of those tears. He wouldn't approve of him apologizing. He wouldn't approve of him doing anything but some I said what I said, deal with what I said stuff. Because, frankly, that man is sitting there

and knowing that he's going to get approved. So if that injured him, I'm not going to take that as a sign of weakness. What I am going to say is that having this president, voting matters, people, has shown us the cracks in our system because so much of our appointee system, whether it's for cabinet positions

or whether it's for judges, depends on people having enough care and integrity about the process to appoint people who are qualified for the jobs. And we are seeing what can happen when we don't. And the count is up. We're at, what, almost 200? Yeah.

And they don't stop doing that. And he's pointing to the DC court. So any of the claims filed against him, he's going to have his former White House lawyers sitting on that bench being appointed by design. All right, folks. Back to that RoboMark unfiltered video in just one moment. All right, folks. Life Lux Jazz Experience taking place in Cabo

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