Not qualified
Despite being an incompetent idiot, Trump is ruining everything.
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 Ass[ociati]n.
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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Civil rights groups and liberal advocates…denounced Thursday’s vote, calling it “laughable” that none of the committee Republicans objected to confirming a lawyer with as little experience as Talley to preside over federal trials.
“He’s practiced law for less than three years and never argued a motion, let alone brought a case. This is the least amount of experience I’ve seen in a judicial nominee,” said Kristine Lucius, executive vice president of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.
But it’s one of Trump’s core beliefs: that any damn fool who wanders by can be president or a federal judge…provided he [it has to be a he] is right-wing enough.
My wife has been telling me how clueless she felt three years into practicing law. She wasn’t, she was competent enough to know what she didn’t know.
That someone thinks he can do that job after 3 years, especially when nobody who knows about this stuff has confidence in him….. not so good.
Please, someone pull a Caligula and nominate an animal. It would probably be more effective.
Oh, Talley will be much more effective than Incitatus. He will advance the theocrat’s agenda, and the NRA’s, THAT’S why Republicans won’t step away from Trump. No matter how corrupt and shameless he may be, he is giving them what they want: immunity from electoral judgement, anarcho-capitalism, and the final elimination of the New Deal.
@John the Drunkard Sadly, you are correct.
In addition to being a right-wing hack, this nominee has one very important qualification: he’s married to the White House Counsel’s chief of staff
He’s shy and modest, though, so he didn’t disclose this qualification on his Senate questionnaire.