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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSenate Panel Votes to Make Blogger With No Trial Experience a Federal Judge
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/11/senate-panel-votes-to-make-pro-gun-blogger-a-federal-judge.htmlBrett J. Talley has practiced law for less than three years. He has never tried a case or even argued a motion.
But he does write a spirited, far-right blog: Shortly after the massacre at Sandy Hook elementary, Talley described Barack Obamas proposal to expand background checks and restrict rapid-fire weapons as the greatest attack on our constitutional freedoms in our lifetime. One month later, he endorsed the idea that Americans will have to resort to arms when our other rights of speech, press, assembly, representative government fail to yield the desired results. During the 2016 campaign he derided the Democratic nominee as Hillary Rotten Clinton.
He also went to Harvard Law School, clerked for a couple of federal judges, and made a positive impression on Alabama senator Luther Strange.
President Trump looked over this body of work, and decided the 36-year-old was qualified for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench (the American Bar Association begged to differ). On Friday, the Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to second Trumps assessment. Now, Talleys nomination will proceed to the Senate floor, where he is widely expected to be confirmed on a party-line vote, just like Trumps previous judicial nominees.
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All a part of Trump's pact with Putin to tear down all the US institutions. PLEASE HURRY UP MUELLER.
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Senate Panel Votes to Make Blogger With No Trial Experience a Federal Judge (Original Post)
iluvtennis
Nov 2017
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Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)1. LOSER
Stinky The Clown
(67,808 posts)2. Actually, WE are the losers
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)3. We cannot get Trump out of office soon enough. Despite not
attaining any major legislative successes, he has done so much negative shit that will be affecting us for years and years.
iluvtennis
(19,863 posts)5. Agreed..years of negative impact to us
malaise
(269,054 posts)4. Seriously this is government as farce
People should be in the streets for this