Posted on 07/08/2009 6:21:49 PM PDT by Kaslin
The way most media outlets have treated the American Bar Association's unanimous "Well Qualified" evaluation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, you'd think they were reporting on a dispassionate assessment by an unassailable apolitical body. The ABA's Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary basks in such a false reputation, deluding the public into thinking it objectively assesses judicial nominees based on their integrity, competence and temperament, with ideology a nonfactor. A look at Federal Election Commission records shatters that notion, revealing that the 15-member ABA panel is dominated by financial supporters of liberal Democrats. For instance, the FEC Web site indicates the ABA committee's chairman, Kim Askew, gave $2,000 to Democratic Party campaigns like that of Sen. Barbara Boxer of California; Obama administration trade representative Ron Kirk, a former Dallas mayor who ran for the Senate in 2002; and Pennsylvania House candidate Joseph Driscoll. Before those donations, Askew gave $250 to fellow Texan George W. Bush's presidential campaign in 1999. Fellow board member William Kayatta of Maine was an early supporter of the president, giving $1,000 to Obama for America all the way back in May 2007, as well as $2,300 to failed Maine Democratic congressional candidate Adam Cote and $1,500 to former Maine Democratic Rep. Tom Allen's failed 2008 Senate bid. Another board member is Mary Boies, who was assistant director of domestic policy in the Carter White House. She is also the wife of David Boies, the highflying attorney who represented Al Gore in front of the Supreme Court in the 2000 election dispute.
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Rigging the game is what our “most transparent administration in history” is all about.
And all nominees to a judicial position must get the o.k. from the ABA. Who said the ABA wasn’t political? Dirty rotten scoundrels.
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