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ABA rates Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch ‘well qualified’
Judge Gorsuch is an excellent pick!
What are the democrats going to do? Try to smear Judge Gorsuch?
A major campaign promise kept. I think all they will do is slow walk the
nomination and save the big fight for the next one.
ABA rates Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch ‘well qualified’
The American Bar Association has rated Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, “well qualified.”The rating (PDF) came Thursday from the ABA’s Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, whose purpose is to evaluate the qualifications of nominees to federal judgeships.
The committee’s goal is to provide impartial, nonpartisan evaluations based on judicial temperament, competence and integrity, according to its own “backgrounder” document (PDF).An ABA press release says the review was based on hundreds of interviews with people who know Gorsuch’s work and qualifications.
Teams of law professors and Supreme Court advocates reviewed the judge’s writings—he currently sits on the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals—for clarity, quality, analytical prowess and knowledge of the law. The “well qualified” rating—the highest the Standing Committee gives—was reported to the White House, the Department of Justice, the Senate Judiciary Committee and the nominee himself.
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Re: ABA rates Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch ‘well qualified’
By all accounts, Judge Gorsuch is more than qualified.
I think for the most part since the nomination was announced, most Democrats in the Senate have held their tongue.
My prediction is that come vote time, Gorsuch will get at least 75 votes in the Senate.
But yeah, if Stevens or Ginsburg steps down, whomever Trump nominates better be ready for a battle.
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Re: ABA rates Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch ‘well qualified’
A major campaign promise kept?
Really?
Isn't appointing people to the Court his job?
It's not like Trump did anything special.
The guy would have been on the short list for any republican president.
Well, Trump managed to announce the appointment without bragging about his electoral college count, or by libeling the former President, so I guess that's something.
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We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: ABA rates Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch ‘well qualified’
Yeah, Merrick Garland's rating was higher than Gorsuch among democrats, republicans, independents, and the American public. The republicans in both houses criticized his nomination and even refused to bring the nomination up. And you are accusing the democrats of 'slow walking' the Gorsuch nomination?
C'mon Common . . . Let's be reasonable. The way republicans handled Obama's Supreme Court nomination was an abomination of the rules and procedures for accepted ways of handling nominees. Gorsuch will, most likely, be confirmed with most voting along party lines but several democrats crossing over and voting to confirm. Gorsuch, even though his overall rating lags behind that of Merrick Garland, will be the next member of the Supreme Court. Whereas, if the republicans would have acted like adults and fulfilled their sworn constitutional duties in a timely manner, that seat would already be occupied by Merrick Garland.
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Re: ABA rates Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch ‘well qualified’
Yea, I found it ironic that someone would speculate that the nominee would be "smeared" (Also known as examining his record), or "slow walked".
I don't think that any republican could honestly be critical after Garland received extreme slow walking.
Of course, this being politics, the other side will be blind to the hypocrisy.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: ABA rates Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch ‘well qualified’
Wasn't the Garland nomination put on the shelf for 362 days by the R-tribe?
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Re: ABA rates Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch ‘well qualified’
Just Fred wrote:
Wasn't the Garland nomination put on the shelf for 362 days by the R-tribe?
Yep. And now another 50 days into the Trump admin and still only eight members on the bench.
Between Garland and Gorsuch, we've had to qualified nominees in limbo for over a year. Our government can't even get the simple stuff done.
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Re: ABA rates Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch ‘well qualified’
Yeah, Merrick Garland's rating was higher than Gorsuch among democrats, republicans, independents, and the American public. The republicans in both houses criticized his nomination and even refused to bring the nomination up. And you are accusing the democrats of 'slow walking' the Gorsuch nomination?
C'mon Common . . . Let's be reasonable. The way republicans handled Obama's Supreme Court nomination was an abomination of the rules and procedures for accepted ways of handling nominees. Gorsuch will, most likely, be confirmed with most voting along party lines but several democrats crossing over and voting to confirm. Gorsuch, even though his overall rating lags behind that of Merrick Garland, will be the next member of the Supreme Court. Whereas, if the republicans would have acted like adults and fulfilled their sworn constitutional duties in a timely manner, that seat would already be occupied by Merrick Garland.
BINGO !
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