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Biased screener undermining Trump judicial nominees, Republicans say
The Washington Times ^ | 11/27/2018 | Alex Swoyer

Posted on 11/27/2018 7:26:50 PM PST by Loud Mime

She’s not a senator, but Cynthia Nance plays an enormous role in shaping the debate over some of President Trump’s judicial picks. Ms. Nance, former dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law, handles the American Bar Association’s judicial ratings for nominees to federal courts in North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri and Arkansas, which make up the federal 8th Circuit. The ABA’s role is one the more opaque parts of the process, but Republicans are pushing it into the light, accusing her of allowing personal bias, particularly a fealty to abortion rights, to color her ratings. The ABA recently rated Jonathan Kobes, a Trump pick to sit on the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, “not qualified,” saying he didn’t have a long enough record of legal writings.

And a year earlier, Ms. Nance led the ABA review committee that rated another Trump pick, Leonard Steven Grasz, “not qualified.” Judge Grasz would win confirmation, but not before accusing the Nance-led panel of inappropriate questions on abortion and referring to him as “you guys” — which he took as a pejorative reference to Republicans.

To SenateJudiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, the treatment has gone overboard.

He said Ms. Nance’s left-leaning activism dates back more than a decade, including opposing Justice Samuel A. Alito’s confirmation despite the ABA rating him “unanimously well qualified.”

She also has retweeted comments on Twitter mocking the late Justice Antonin Scalia and his view of originalism, the Iowa Republican said.

In addition, the law professor also wrote a letter to the Obama administration opposing legal protections for religious organizations such as the Little Sisters of the Poor, which challenged Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Arkansas; US: Iowa; US: Minnesota; US: Missouri; US: Nebraska; US: North Dakota; US: South Dakota
KEYWORDS: 8thcircuit; aba; antoninscalia; arkansas; biased; chuckgrassley; cynthianance; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; iowa; jonathankobes; judicial; leonardstevengrasz; minnesota; missouri; nebraska; northdakota; samuelaalito; scotus; southdakota; trumpjudiciary; twitter; uofarkansas
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1 posted on 11/27/2018 7:26:50 PM PST by Loud Mime
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To: Loud Mime

So ignore her. Refuse to enter her opinion in the record, and refuse to allow her to appear as a witness


2 posted on 11/27/2018 7:31:54 PM PST by montag813
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To: Loud Mime

Tell the bitch to write a letter. The Chair will enter it into the record.

Done.

L


3 posted on 11/27/2018 7:34:38 PM PST by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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Cynthia Nance
Cynthia Nance Twitter Account

Dean Emeritus, Nathan G. Gordon Professor of Law,Univ. of Ark, interests: faith matters, labor & emp. law, civ rts, women's iss., politics, lgl/high ed, riding.

4 posted on 11/27/2018 7:37:44 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

She could eat an apple through a picket fence...at arms length.


5 posted on 11/27/2018 7:43:35 PM PST by Beagle8U (Free Republic is one stop shopping...It's the super Walmart for news.)
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To: Loud Mime

Need more swamp draining. What’s taking so long?


6 posted on 11/27/2018 7:43:35 PM PST by Fledermaus (If the rule of law no longer exist, then what is the point? The left wins.)
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To: Robert DeLong

Riding? Like a broomstick?


7 posted on 11/27/2018 7:45:59 PM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: Loud Mime

Was the ABA approval necessary and in the Constitution? No? Then why the hell bother?


8 posted on 11/27/2018 7:50:58 PM PST by Dogbert41 (When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. -Luke 11:21)
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To: Fledermaus
Try draining a swamp. Not easy at all. D.C. was an actual swamp, and even after draining it, as you can see, the swamp has regained dominance once again. So after draining it's tough to keep it drained, because the refilling process never stops.

Now if President Trump were truly the dictator the left label him as being, that draining would be much easier. But he is not a dictator.

9 posted on 11/27/2018 7:53:27 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Loud Mime

The American Bar Association is not a branch of government - they’re just another special interest group with a political axe to grind. There is zero reason for any GOP senator to care what their ratings are, unless they themselves believe deeply in the ABA’s opinion - certainly the voting public couldn’t care less what the ABA thinks about anything.


10 posted on 11/27/2018 7:58:58 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Loud Mime
She can't possibly be biased.


11 posted on 11/27/2018 8:23:37 PM PST by Regulator
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To: rockrr

She’s a horsewoman.


12 posted on 11/27/2018 8:30:02 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: Beagle8U

“She could eat an apple through a picket fence...at arms length.”

Yeah, she definitely gots de Obama Choppers! Maybe she’d be good enough to go help Occasional-Kotex help the beavers in DC build an extension on their dam.


13 posted on 11/27/2018 8:52:24 PM PST by vette6387
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To: Loud Mime

Her twitter page is full of left wing propaganda.

https://twitter.com/Nancecy

The ABA should have ZERO say in who is nominated. They are a far-left marxist organization and they have way, way too much power.

They don’t represent all lawyers anyway. They have power because the government foolishly cedes accreditation to them for law schools.


14 posted on 11/27/2018 10:45:08 PM PST by TexasGurl24
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To: Loud Mime

The American Bar Association is a left wing political organization. Its opinions are of no worth.


15 posted on 11/28/2018 12:42:40 AM PST by cpdiii (Cane Cutter, Deckhand,Roughneck, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist: THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: Loud Mime

Never heard of her 9that I recall0 until this article...her “enormous influence” must be overstated.


16 posted on 11/28/2018 3:55:30 AM PST by trebb (Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
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To: Loud Mime

What took Grassley so long to get going on this issue?


17 posted on 11/28/2018 4:13:55 AM PST by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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To: Loud Mime

Ohhhh...a professor....


18 posted on 11/28/2018 4:43:10 AM PST by Mashood
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To: Loud Mime

In the age of Trump many companies institutions have ditched any semblance of fairness and in the process lost any reputation they might have for integrity. This in turn has reduced their power. This includes mainstream media outlets, the ABA, and even the giant social media giants will eventually pay the price when there is a whiff of competition to them.


19 posted on 11/28/2018 5:01:04 AM PST by winner3000
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To: Robert DeLong; SunkenCiv; LS

My social-justus, racist, female, law school, want-to-be-in-the-news, internationalist radar is screaming liberal activist to me.


20 posted on 11/28/2018 5:44:57 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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