The American Bar Association has secretly declared a significant number of President Obamas potential judicial nominees not qualified, slowing White House efforts to fill vacant judgeships and nearly all of the prospects given poor ratings were women or members of a minority group, according to interviews.
The White House has chosen not to nominate any person the bar association deemed unqualified, so their identities and negative ratings have not been made public. But the associations judicial vetting committee has opposed 14 of the roughly 185 potential nominees the administration asked it to evaluate, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The number of Obama prospects deemed not qualified already exceeds the total number opposed by the group during the eight-year administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush; the rejection rate is more than three and a half times as high as it was under either of the previous two presidencies, documents and interviews show.
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Term limits would solve some of those issues. Since the Judiciary has empowered itself well beyond its original authority to stick its nose into the affairs of the everyday life of the citizenry, its time for direct accountability.
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Ideology, not competence, has been the hallmark of Zero's appointments - judicial and executive
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What Frank said. Also, can anyone fathom the damage this is going to do to our Legal System in the long term and the citizens that must live beneath it?
I shall not forgive this man for destroying this wonderful nation. He shall have ruined too many lives to have any redeeming qualities.
Sure he has redeeming qualities. Given the power of his position with respect to foreign affairs, I'll take stupid & lazy, over stupid & energetic any day of the week.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
