11-15-2017, 02:54 AM
(11-10-2017, 07:56 PM)Duchess Wrote:
Hello. Is there anybody out there? Anybody who gives a fuck or two?
Brett J. Talley, President Trump’s nominee to be a federal judge in Alabama, has never tried a case, was unanimously rated “not qualified” by the American Bar Assn.’s judicial rating committee, has practiced law for only three years and, as a blogger last year, displayed a degree of partisanship unusual for a judicial nominee, denouncing “Hillary Rotten Clinton” and pledging support for the National Rifle Assn. On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee, on a party-line vote, approved him for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench.
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I'm here. I see what Trump is doing with his federal judge nominees. Four of them are "not qualified" according to the ABA. They've approved the majority of Trump's nominees, but four "unqualifieds" among so few nominees is unprecedented.
Let's hope Talley, a paranormal 'ghost hunter' and horror story writer, does not get confirmed. Yeah, he's got a law degree and important sounding legal title in Alabama, but the man has zero trial experience. I wouldn't support a Democratic or Independent nominee with those qualifications and I don't support this Republican one.
Too bad for me and others who give a shit about who's sitting behind the bench that White House Counsel Donald McGahn announced the administration would no longer give the ABA's Standing Committee special access to nominees. Trump wants young white males in those positions, regardless of qualifications, it sure seems.
Hey, guess who Talley's wife and partner in paranormal ghost-hunting is? She's Ann Donaldson, the chief of staff to the White House Counsel Donald McGahn. Seriously.
Talk about filling the swamp. Maybe Talley's failure to disclose his family connections will stop him from getting the lifetime appointment. But, I kinda doubt it.