Posted on 11/16/2023 6:59:06 AM PST by george76
en. John Kennedy (R-LA) once again turned law professor when he quizzed President Biden’s nominee for a district judgeship in Oklahoma about her knowledge of basic legal terms.
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, the senator asked Sara E. Hill to explain the difference between a “stay” order and an “injunction.”
"A stay order would prohibit, um, sorry. An injunction would restrain the parties from taking action. A stay order … I'm not sure I can, actually can, can give you that," she answered.
According to the Legal Information Institute, "An injunction is a court order requiring a person to do or cease doing a specific action," while a stay "is an action taken by a court to stop a legal proceeding or the actions of a party."
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Biden judicial nominee Sara Hill “made history” by being the first Native American woman nominated to serve as a federal judge in Oklahoma
Today, she was unable to explain the difference between a stay order and an injunction when asked by Sen. Kennedy.
It's always a great day for diversity when somebody will head to the federal bench but doesn't know something about the law that you can learn by watching a couple episodes of Suits. ~Greg Price.
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Hill's response troubled Carrie Severino, president of Judicial Crisis Network.
Biden’s district judge nominee Sara Hill was unable to explain to Sen. John Kennedy the difference between a “stay order” and an “injunction.”
How can an individual who wants to be a federal judge possibly not know this?
Senator Durbin even congratulated Hill afterward for “passing the Kennedy bar exam” – talk about grading on a curve..
Stays and injunctions come before district judges all of the time.
This is not a trick question.
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Other lawyers argued her inability to define the difference was "disqualifying."
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This isn't the first time Kennedy has grilled nominees about their knowledge of the law.
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asked Judge Ana de Alba, a sitting district judge nominated by President Biden to the Ninth Circuit, what the Dormant Commerce Clause is.
Judge de Alba was unable to answer a question any first year law student would know.
I mean, she can learn it quick enough, but really?
She will be bad news for citizens of Oklahoma. She always rules in favor of the tribes in their on going power grabs.
What law school did she attend, and did she ever pass the bar exam?
How did they think she’d be able to perform to the level required?
I mean, she can learn it quick enough, but really?
Sara Hill is an excellent example of DEI. Her only qualification is her identity. Judicial competence is irrelevant.
Another “Karen” in black robes pretending to be a man. We’ve got way too many of those already. That’s what I don’t like about “judges”. ANYBODY CAN BE ONE REGARDLESS OF THEIR INTELLIGENCE LEVEL. It takes more skill and knowledge to be a fast food fries guy than it takes to be a “judge”. In this country, all it takes to be a “judge” is proof of DemocRAT voter registration.
By current standards, she could qualify for the Supreme Court.
Deep State doesn’t care.
And, there’ll be plenty more just like her as law schools no longer require the LSAT and standards are lowered even further.
How can she not know and elevate to this level? Equity. This is what DEI IS.
But the idiots in the Senate will confirm anyway.
No kidding, I guess they think it's cute to amuse themselves with this showmanship.
Of course I know the diff between a stay and an injunction, because I was a litigator, but I had to look up "Dormant Commerce Clause" myself. There's an awful lot of law out there, and if you don't practice constitutional law specifically (a narrow and uncommon niche) this is kind of a trick question. Even Fed judges don't see that much Con law.
She probably also can’t define a woman
Affirmative Action.
Another “history-making” worthless “judge”. We’ve got a lot of those.
“What is the difference between a Stay and an Injunction?”
“How should I know, that’s what my clerks are for.”
Probably...
I graduated law school in 1980, did a two-year federal clerkship, private practice (litigation) for 12 years, then went into the state judicial system from which I retired last year.
Of course I know the diff between a stay and an injunction, because I was a litigator, but I had to look up “Dormant Commerce Clause” myself. There’s an awful lot of law out there, and if you don’t practice constitutional law specifically (a narrow and uncommon niche) this is kind of a trick question. Even Fed judges don’t see that much Con law.
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Yes, and everything is a specialty. I am a lawyer too with a very good reputation.
How can an individual who wants to be a federal judge possibly not know this?.
The democrats load the courts with stupid people for judges so they can get the case results they want.
Any Trump case is a prime example if it.
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