Lawrence VanDyke's own colleagues describe him as an ideologue who may not be fair to LGBTQ litigants. The GOP confirmed him anyway.
WASHINGTON ― Senate Republicans voted Wednesday to make Lawrence VanDyke a lifetime federal judge, despite the American Bar Association rating him “not qualified” because, according to his own colleagues, he is “arrogant, lazy, an ideologue, and lacking in knowledge of the day-today practice including procedural rules.”
More than 200 national civil and human rights groups opposed VanDyke, citing his record of attacking LGBTQ rights and arguing against women’s reproductive rights . The ABA evaluation cited a theme among interviewees that VanDyke “has an ‘entitlement’ temperament, does not have an open mind, and does not always have a commitment to being candid and truthful.”
VanDyke didn’t have support from either of his home-state senators, Nevada Democrats Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen. Ahead of his vote, Cortez Masto said she and Rosen tried to work with the White House to find an appeals court nominee they could both agree on, but they were rebuffed.
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