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AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION: Reid criticizes lawyers group
www.lvrj.com ^ | 2-12-10 | STEVE TETREAULT

Posted on 02/13/2010 10:46:17 AM PST by Justaham

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., criticized the American Bar Association on Thursday, saying it should "get a new life" in how it rates prospective federal judges, after one of his choices got a mixed review.

In remarks to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Reid said the bar association's ratings board puts too much weight on whether judicial nominees have prior bench experience and overlooks "real world" qualifications.

Reid expanded his criticism to include the Supreme Court, whose makeup, he said, consists of "people who have never seen the outside world."

"I have asked President (Barack) Obama, 'Let's get somebody on the court that has not been a judge.' They need to do more than thinking of themselves as these people who walk around in these robes in these fancy chambers."

Reid was set off by the ABA's rating of Las Vegas attorney Gloria Navarro, who also appeared before the Senate committee as his choice and Obama's nominee to become a U.S. district judge in Nevada.

According to the association's 15-member Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, a "substantial majority," consisting of 10 to 13 members, rated Navarro "qualified," while a minority rated her "not qualified."

The bar shares its ratings in an advisory capacity with the White House and the Senate, which votes on the nominees.

The committee considers a nominee's "professional competence, integrity and judicial temperament." It rates each nominee as "well qualified," "qualified," or "not qualified."

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1 posted on 02/13/2010 10:46:17 AM PST by Justaham
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To: Justaham
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'Let's get somebody on the court that has not been a judge.'

Satire, right?

2 posted on 02/13/2010 10:47:21 AM PST by Touch Not the Cat
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To: Justaham

>>Reid expanded his criticism to include the Supreme Court, whose makeup, he said, consists of “people who have never seen the outside world.”<<

Says someone who has never seen the outside world.

OTOH, he will experience it very, very soon.


3 posted on 02/13/2010 10:50:53 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Justaham

I wish that November would get here a little quicker.Then Harry will be shown the door,and the country will be a better place....


4 posted on 02/13/2010 10:51:42 AM PST by Farmer Dean (every time a toilet flushes,another liberal gets his brains)
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To: Touch Not the Cat

And I think I’ll have an operation done by a surgeon who hasn’t actually cut open anything before.


5 posted on 02/13/2010 10:53:22 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: Justaham
"I have asked President (Barack) Obama, 'Let's get somebody on the court that has not been a judge.'

Harriet Miers is still available.

6 posted on 02/13/2010 10:53:36 AM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Justaham

Considering the ABA has a LOT of lawyers, it’s a little stupid to be defaming them.


7 posted on 02/13/2010 11:08:44 AM PST by tbw2 (Freeper sci-fi - "Humanity's Edge" - on amazon.com)
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To: Justaham
"I have asked President (Barack) Obama, 'Let's get somebody on the court that has not been a judge.' They need to do more than thinking of themselves as these people who walk around in these robes in these fancy chambers."

This is idiotic. In trying to defend the lack of judicial experience for one nominee he felt it completely kosher to denigrate every nominee that does have extensive judicial experience. That's arrogance. What's the saying, "Cut your nose to spite your face" or something like that.

8 posted on 02/13/2010 12:23:18 PM PST by torchthemummy (No Obama: Not Because He's Black But Because He's Red)
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To: Justaham
But in 2001 after Bush came into office, the democrats said ABA ratings were the be all end all of judicial nominees and Bush was a moron and throwing away years of precedent by saying he was going to ignore them.

Whats changed Harry?

9 posted on 02/13/2010 1:46:12 PM PST by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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