Responding to press reports that he has stymied a federal appeals court nominee due to a personal grudge, Sen. Robert Menendez on Friday voiced a different rationale: that he considers Patty Shwartz, a magistrate judge since 2003, unqualified for the higher office.
Menendez said that when he interviewed Shwartz last August in connection with a District Court vacancy, “I proceeded to ask her substantive legal questions and was not fully satisfied with her responses.”
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