Thursday, March 4, 2010

Is Obama Selling Judgeships for Health Care Votes?

Is Obama trading judgeships for votes on his health care bill? Michele Bachmann is asking tough questions:

Video: h/t RightScoop

Background information from the Weekly Standard:

Tonight, Barack Obama will host ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House; he's obviously trying to persuade them to switch their votes to yes. One of the ten is Jim Matheson of Utah. The White House just sent out a press release announcing that today President Obama nominated Matheson's brother Scott M. Matheson, Jr. to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

“Scott Matheson is a distinguished candidate for the Tenth Circuit court,” President Obama said. “Both his legal and academic credentials are impressive and his commitment to judicial integrity is unwavering. I am honored to nominate this lifelong Utahn to the federal bench.

...Scott Matheson appears to have the credentials to be a judge, but was his nomination used to buy off his brother's vote?

This certainly looks suspicious, but I don't know. Maybe this was just the coincidence of the day!

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