[groanup]

If you don't want every future Federal judge to be chosen from a list pre approved by leftists you'd better write your congressmen and senators.

[kevinm13]

From a business perspective this stinks of bad corporate governance as the lawyers will have their fingers in who will decide their cases. Not good.

[Zeppelin]

A lawyer friend of my girlfriend’s was telling me just a couple weeks ago that he was studying abroad in Istanbul, and Ruth Bader Ginsberg was there as a guest lecturer for a week.

He said “I actually heard her say, and I quote ‘if the legislative body doesnt do what needs to be done, then it’s up to the judicial body to do it.’”

I was in shock. The I realized it was RBG and I came to.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

ping

[Libertarianize the GOP]

Absent an Amendment a list provided by the ABA can only be advisory and the President is still free to ignore it.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

How about a deal? Merit selection of federal judges in exchange for stripping judges of lifetime appointments.

That is, rotten judges like Alcee Hastings no longer would need to be impeached, but could be removed for cause by the President.

[kcvl]

H. Thomas Wells Jr., a partner and founding member at Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C., in Birmingham, Ala., was chosen as the association’s president-elect at its August 2007 annual meeting in San Francisco and will become president in August 2008.

Wells has a litigation practice with emphasis on complex environmental, toxic tort law and products liability cases.

Wells lives in Birmingham with his wife Jan. The couple’s two children, Lynlee Wells Palmer and H. Thomas “Trey” Wells III, are also lawyers in Birmingham and active ABA members.

[Enchante]

First rule of judicial selection should be that no lawyers are allowed to have anything to do with it...... :^)

[keepitreal]

They would have to amend the Constitution first. Advise and consent never meant that the President had to pick from a preapproved list.

I quit the ABA 20+ years ago. They are a bunch of leftist idiots.

[Barnacle]

If you don't want every future Federal judge to be chosen from a list pre approved by leftists you'd better write your congressmen and senators.

Let's see now. If I write my senators, that would be, Durban and ... there's another one.

Oh yeah. Obama.

Sometimes it's damed rotten to be an Illinoisan.

[Barnacle]

If you don't want every future Federal judge to be chosen from a list pre approved by leftists you'd better write your congressmen and senators.

It's OK with me as long as Harriet Myers makes the list.

/sarcasm

[muawiyah]

This is the reason ALL judges must be elected by the people at large.

Appointment by one man, or ten men, or 100 men, is simply the denial of the franchise to 280 million citizens.

Democracy here; democracy now; no justice; no peace!

[WOSG]

RESTORE DEMOCRACY - MAKE JUDGES RECALLABLE BY VOTERS. HAVE VOTERS SELECT JUDGES.

[Cacique]

btt

[Antoninus]

Where the h#ll does the Constitution mention the ABA, anyway? They should have no say in the process whatsoever.

[Publius Valerius]

to push for an expansion of merit selection at the state level as an alternative to judicial elections -- which the bar loathes because voters can be so darn unpredictable.

Actually a very good idea. It's not that voter's are unpredictable; that's not it at all. They are very predictable, it's just that they keep electing stupid people who aren't qualified to be judge.