And thankfully, neither has Grassley.
The ABA is a monopoly that should be done away with.
I’ll bet he’s not even a compassionate Latino.
Sorry, ABA, but thanks to folks like you, the profession of law (never one of the top ranking in respectability) has now sunk to levels approaching (or perhaps even lower than) congress.
Of course, since congress (the very definition of incompetence, immorality, and criminality) is composed of a majority of lawyers, what else can we expect.
In summary: ABA, shove it up your collective Obamaholes.
Sonia Soto-Mayor had five of her appellate rulings appealed to the USSCt. Three were overturned. She misinterpreted the law 60% of the time. But she was “qualified” .
So they accuse Trump of reshaping the nations courts, but had no problem when obama was putting judges there based on their liberal, commie agendas.
In this case, I think the ABA is right that a 36 year old lawyer who has never tried case is not qualified to be a district judge. The problem is that the ABA doesn’t have any credibility to make that determination. If my memory serves, the ABA didn’t have any issue with Elena Kagan’s nomination for SCOTUS, or with Goodwin Lieu’s nomination for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Neither had ever tried a case, but they had the right politics for the ABA.
Yet they were perfectly fine with championing Elena Kagan for the US Supreme Court; Kagan, who had never been a judge, was a law professor and activist.
The ABA is like a legal profession version of Snopes. Libs masquerading as neutral observers.
So his disqualification is not that he graduated from a prestigious law school and has 10 years experience in the Justice Department, it’s because he tweeted mean things about Hillary and said something dumb about rebelling?
The ABA is a liberal front. It is not qualified to judge. Its last issue made it clear that race and gender are the most important qualifications. Not competence.
The author of this article had his law license suspended:
From the VA Lawyers Weekly, 4-3-14:
Another Virginia lawyer accepted a nine-month suspension last month after he acknowledged failing to help a client as promised and failing to respond to a bar complaint.
Douglas E. Mataconis agreed to represent a Prince William County couple who hoped to block construction on a nearby residential development, according to an agreed statement of facts.
Despite exchanging information on how to proceed for more than a year, Mataconis never completed a promised letter of protest to the county board, nor did he provide any substantive assistance with the couple’s effort, according to the statement.
Moreover, Mataconis acknowledged he never responded when the VSB sent notice of the clients’ bar complaint.
After receiving the stipulation of evidence and hearing from both the bar and Mataconis, the Disciplinary Board panel proposed the nine-month suspension, according to assistant bar counsel Prescott L. Prince. Mataconis agreed to the suspension.
Mataconis is a prolific contributor on the blog “Outside the Beltway,” described as an online journal of politics and foreign affairs analysis.
The ABA stated before Congress the following about Kagan:
"The Standing Committee unanimously concluded that General Kagan merits our highest rating and is “Well Qualified” for appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States."
So, the ABA considers an Obama appointee qualified for the highest court without ever having been a judge, but the ABA doesn't consider a Trump appointee qualified for a lower court who has never been a judge.
That is nothing but extreme left-wing politics from the ABA.
Lawyers should be embarrassed that their labor union plays such politics.