From here: https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/05/26_sotomayor.shtml
No mention of the constitution, just all racist BS.
Posted on 11/12/2017 8:13:46 AM PST by cotton1706
For the fourth time since January, one of President Trump’s nominees for a Federal Judgeship has received the extremely rare “not qualified” rating from the American Bar Association, and this time it’s a man who has never tried a case in a Federal or State Court in what amounts to a very short, limited career:
A 36-year-old lawyer who has never tried a case and who was unanimously deemed “not qualified” by the American Bar Association has been approved for a lifetime federal district judgeship by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The lawyer, Brett Talley, is the fourth judicial nominee under President Trump to receive a “not qualified” rating from the bar association and the second to receive the rating unanimously. Since 1989, the association has unanimously rated only two other judicial nominees as not qualified.
The Senate committee’s vote on Thursday to approve Mr. Talley, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 2007 and is a deputy assistant attorney general at the Justice Department, fell along party lines; Republican members outnumber Democrats on the committee 11 to nine. Mr. Talley will now face a full vote in the Senate. If confirmed, he would serve as a trial judge in his home state of Alabama.
Mr. Talley’s nomination is just one of the latest examples of Mr. Trump’s efforts to reshape the nation’s courts, packing them with young, deeply conservative judges.
(Excerpt) Read more at outsidethebeltway.com ...
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” .
The ABA has zero credibility in that it is responsible for disciplining its members and like the American Medical Association does a lousy job of it.
Perhaps the author should explain why Elena Kagan was qualified to be a Supreme Court justice. Most of her “experience” was as an academic and an administrative role at the DOJ. She admitted during her hearings for the Supreme Court she had never tried a case from filing to verdict.
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.
Did justice Kagen ever “ hear a case” as a judge? Did the ABA say she was unqualified??????
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.
You both touched on the two people I thought of after reading the title of this thread.
The ABA’s views ring hollow here.
“Unqualified” is newspeak for “not a part of the corrupt ruling establishment.”
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Nailed it.
Unless you see the Constitution as a completely rubber document able to be stretched and twisted to suit, you are unqualified.
From here: https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/05/26_sotomayor.shtml
No mention of the constitution, just all racist BS.
The ABA is like a legal profession version of Snopes. Libs masquerading as neutral observers.
“Elena Kagan. Nominated: May 10, 2010. Confirmed: August 5, 2010. Rating: “ Well Qualified” by unanimous vote of the Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary (one abstention)”
ROFLMBO... oh, wait... it gets better...
The Standing Committee did not base its rating on, or seek to express any view regarding General Kagan’s ideology, political views or political affiliation. It also did not solicit information with regard to how General Kagan might vote on specific issues or cases that might come before the Supreme Court of the United States. Rather, the Standing Committee’s evaluation of General Kagan is based solely on a comprehensive, nonpartisan, nonideological peer review of the nominee’s integrity, professional competence, and judicial temperament.
https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/migrated/scfedjud/SCpage/kaganstatement.authcheckdam.pdf
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