Posted on 07/17/2006 4:57:40 PM PDT by new yorker 77
In addition to simply ignoring Chairman Specters request that the Senate Judiciary Committee receive the ABA report on Mike Wallaces nomination to the Fifth Circuit, Stephen Tober, chairman of the ABAs Standing Committee on Federal Judiciary, has failed to live up to his express promise to Specter. In his June 30 letter, Tober told Specter that the ABA will certainly comply with the Judiciary Committees rules and provide its testimony on Wallace 48 hours in advance of the hearing. Tober further assured Specter that we will do our best to provide the testimony more than 48 hours in advance. Tobers statements responded to Specters observations that nominees deserve time to prepare a response to whatever allegations you may raise in your testimony and that
[w]aiting until twenty-four hours before the hearings neither gives the nominees the opportunity to respond, nor does it give Members of the Judiciary Committee adequate time to prepare.
Wallaces hearing is scheduled for 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, so the 48-hour mark passed at 2:15 this afternoon. As of 5 p.m., a Senate Judiciary staffer tells me that the ABA has still not submitted its testimony.
On matters large and small, the ABA committee simply cant be trusted to do what it says it will do (or to have done what it says it has done) and to accord fairness to nominees it dislikes. (For further recent evidence, see the ABAs false statements in connection with the Kavanaugh and Wallace nominations and its abusive treatment of Kavanaughs nomination.)
FYI
The objective ABA? Some gold standard.
So--what's the problem? Just refuse them permission to testify.
bttt
"the ABAs false statements in connection with the Kavanaugh and Wallace nominations and its abusive treatment of Kavanaughs nomination."
It didn't stop Kavanaugh from being confirmed.
So? Fork-em! Let em buy their own popcorn.
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