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iluvtennis

(19,863 posts)
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 01:51 AM Nov 2017

Senate 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.html

Brett 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 Obama’s 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 Trump’s assessment. Now, Talley’s nomination will proceed to the Senate floor, where he is widely expected to be confirmed on a party-line vote, just like Trump’s 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 OP
LOSER Angry Dragon Nov 2017 #1
Actually, WE are the losers Stinky The Clown Nov 2017 #2
We cannot get Trump out of office soon enough. Despite not Dark n Stormy Knight Nov 2017 #3
Agreed..years of negative impact to us iluvtennis Nov 2017 #5
Seriously this is government as farce malaise Nov 2017 #4

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)
3. We cannot get Trump out of office soon enough. Despite not
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 05:20 AM
Nov 2017

attaining any major legislative successes, he has done so much negative shit that will be affecting us for years and years.

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