This is about allowing Donald Trump to select local judges for D.C. and bypass a commission system that is currently in place where the President still has an ability to select from a panel of different judges. There is no state in the United States, in our country that allows the President to directly select local judges. This is an outrageous attempt to take away Power from 700,000 residents and to hurt our independent judiciary system here in the District. (17:17–17:27)
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Asserts that no U.S. state allows the President to directly select local judges.
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