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Reid blasts bar association over judicial ratings
Las Vegas Review-Journal ^ | Feb. 11, 2010 | STEVE TETREAULT

Posted on 02/11/2010 6:24:26 PM PST by Nevadan

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Reid wants to appoint someone to the federal courts. Nevermind that she hasn't had experience as a judge. Her life experiences should make up for her lack of experience, just as Obama's lack of experience was irrelevant for him gaining the most powership job on the planet. Meanwhile, Reid is properly "outraged" and busy playing the race card, because the woman he picked is Hispanic. In other words, he is trolling for Hispanic votes.
1 posted on 02/11/2010 6:24:26 PM PST by Nevadan
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To: Nevadan

I agree with Dingy Harry for once. Putting a moron with no judicial experience on the federal bench is no different than what we are doing now. Putting morons WITH judicial experience on the bench.


2 posted on 02/11/2010 6:28:07 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (If the CIA and NASA are going to "monitor climate change", why the hell do we need the EPA?)
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To: Nevadan

Since DemocRATS only want people they can count on
to do what they’re told, experience as a judge is not a requirement.


3 posted on 02/11/2010 6:28:30 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (demonicRATS ... taxes, pain and slow death. Is this what you want?)
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To: Nevadan

Why should someone who has no experience in being a judge be appointed to the federal courts?

Would they hire someone to work in their national “cyber security” office that had no experience with computers? (don’t answer that question LOL)


4 posted on 02/11/2010 6:31:33 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Nevadan

Noooooow he wakes up?

The ABA ratings have been a joke since the 1990s.

Most if not ALL federal judges are from the DOJ ranks and it is true they have NEVER seen or been in the real world.

nor do they care.


5 posted on 02/11/2010 6:32:31 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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In other words, he is trolling for Hispanic votes.

Of course he is. This is an affirmative action appointment all the way, and everybody knows it. Unfortunately for Reid and Navarro, the "wise Latina" horse manure has already been used to help get a crappy liberal activist judge confirmed.

6 posted on 02/11/2010 6:33:00 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I don’t know anything about the woman, but I do know one thing: Harry Reid would never consider appointing someone he couldn’t count on to be a total Leftist. BTW, she will be replacing a Republican.


7 posted on 02/11/2010 6:33:48 PM PST by Nevadan
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Dingy harry is sayiing this because he is in serious trouble.


8 posted on 02/11/2010 6:34:15 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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The ABA ratings have been a joke since the 1990s.

Longer than that. They sure didn't have any integrity about the Bork nomination in 1987.

9 posted on 02/11/2010 6:34:55 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: Nevadan

True but does she have a “compelling life story”? That trumps judicial experience, intelligence, common sense and understanding of the U.S. Constitution and our laws EVERY TIME.


10 posted on 02/11/2010 6:38:14 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (If the CIA and NASA are going to "monitor climate change", why the hell do we need the EPA?)
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To: circumbendibus; MHGinTN; SeaHawkFan; markomalley; loboinok

A democrat who can’t get along with the leftist ABA? That is really weird.


11 posted on 02/11/2010 6:40:35 PM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (2010 HOUSE RACES! Help everyone get the goods on their House Rats. See my profile.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

If she were another wise Latina, she wouldn’t be voting for Dingy.


12 posted on 02/11/2010 6:43:41 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Nevadan

Translating from the Reid-ese:

“people who have never seen the outside world.” = People who haven’t taken bribes from Jack Abramoff.


13 posted on 02/11/2010 6:45:56 PM PST by denydenydeny ("Leftists are like vampires; shine a light on what they are doing and they retreat."-Andrew Klavan)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Didn’t the ABA approve all the Kelo justices? And that’s not sicko enough for Reid.


14 posted on 02/11/2010 6:46:31 PM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (2010 HOUSE RACES! Help everyone get the goods on their House Rats. See my profile.)
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You’d be surprised how many SCOTUS judges have had no years of judicial experience. There used to be 5 routes to the Supreme Court, all roughly equally used until recent years (1990’s).

Politician (Earl Warren, Hugo Black - but he had judicial experience),
Executive Branch (Rehnquist, William O. Douglas)
Private Attorney (Lewis Powell)
Then I think the last two were Federal Court and then State Court...


15 posted on 02/11/2010 6:53:28 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Putting a moron with no judicial experience on the federal bench is no different than what we are doing now.

No worse than putting a moron with no executive experience in the White House!!!

16 posted on 02/11/2010 7:00:15 PM PST by night reader (NRA Life Member since 1962)
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To: scrabblehack

If I were appointing a judge, I’d want someone that had a deep understanding of the US Constitution(as it was written), and actually applied it to cases as a judge. I didn’t realize there were so many that were appointed without that experience.

Ideologically, I believe judges should be more (small l)libertarian when it comes to domestic matters, but above all else, follow the US Constitution.


17 posted on 02/11/2010 7:04:24 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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But "experience as a Judge" for someone going for a first federal appointment would have to mean that they had been a state judge, which might require, in most states, being of the right party and a buddy of the gov. Or living in the right county to get elected -- a great GOP lawyer in a dem county or vice-versa would be SOL.

Many of Reagan's best appointments to the lower federal bench had no prior judicial experience. Someone who was the best civil trial lawyer (either side) or a great and fair prosecutor would also have no "prior judicial eperience."

Many, many federal disrict judges have no prior judicial experience, so I frankly doubt that the woman's problem with the ABA is that.

18 posted on 02/11/2010 7:35:57 PM PST by BohDaThone
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have given me the opportunity to appear before many different judges with many different styles

ah. I see.

So, if I go to enough virtuoso violinist performances, I should make a great violinist...

19 posted on 02/11/2010 7:38:56 PM PST by maine-iac7 ("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" Lincoln)
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Ried is an idiot. Justice Bill Ayers will be proof. Certainly has the criminal experience missing in the court.


20 posted on 02/11/2010 8:24:09 PM PST by depressed in 06 (Tea parties today, Lexington tomorrow.)
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