Former Montana Solicitor General Lawrence VanDyke was confirmed by the US Senate to sit on the federal bench last month. And now- LVD has officially been sworn in to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Despite a desperate last-minute attack on a fellow Montanan, Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) failed to block President Donald Trump's nominees to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Not only did they violate their own conduct rules, the former chief nominations counselor for the Senate Judiciary Committee says ABA lawyers should be prosecuted for violating federal law.