American Bar Association Deems Significant Number Of Obama Judicial Nominees 'Not Qualified'

New York Times:

WASHINGTON -- The American Bar Association has secretly declared a significant number of President Obama's potential judicial nominees "not qualified," slowing White House efforts to fill vacant judgeships -- and nearly all of the prospects given poor ratings were women or members of a minority group, according to interviews.

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Comments

[Midnight Cry]

10:24 AM on 11/27/2011

Lots of under the table activity going on in the Admin...Sen. Claire McCaskill, a democratic representative from the state of Missouri, has asked the Department of Health and Human Services to look into the White House’s recent deal inked between the Obama administration and Siga Technologies Inc, the manufacturer of a smallpox pill that is coincidently owned by a major campaign donor and crony of the commander-in-chief.

A report from earlier this month revealed that Siga had secured a $433-million deal with the White House to manufacturer an unapproved drug to be kept in America’s surplus stockpile of smallpox medication. The president’s relationship with controlling shareholder Ronald O Perelman has raised eyebrows, but it has also been divulged that Siga was offered the sole contract for the drug without the government seeking out any competition from fellow pharmaceutical companies

[quindy]

08:43 AM on 11/25/2011

From the article:

"In 2001, Mr. Bush stopped sending the group names of prospects before he selected them, so the panel instead rated them after their nomination."

[DeanWormer]

10:55 PM on 11/24/2011

Does this include our AG Cleveland Holder?

[Bloggerrogr]

08:17 PM on 11/24/2011

So now the ABA is grading on a curve?



FWIW

[election2012]

05:31 PM on 11/24/2011

14 out of 185 is not a 'significant number'. 8% actually. Psssh.

[offred]

02:32 PM on 11/24/2011

The ABA rejects 14 out of 185 candidates. Sounds like a pretty low percentage of rejects to me.

[abhorson]

02:19 PM on 11/24/2011

ABA is pretty left-wing ... always has supported Dems ... 14 seems like a LOW number given Sotomayor wasn't intellectually qualified to be a commissioner in traffic court...

[scooter1]

02:10 PM on 11/24/2011

14 out of 185? Hahahahaha...ok.

[Philclock]

02:05 PM on 11/24/2011

Of course, and neither is Obama.

[therealone]

01:43 PM on 11/24/2011

Bush got rid of the ABA as part of the process for these appointments because they said the same about his. NOW, though, the frothing righties give the ABA credibility.

NOW they do, but not when Bankrupt Bush was in charge.

[whythismess]

12:30 PM on 11/24/2011

and you people were getting mad at republicans for obstructing his appointees?

good thing competent people have been elected to obstruct that man.

[henrypapillon]

12:21 PM on 11/24/2011

Of course the Republicans turned down all of the first set of nominees in a blanket rejection, so Obama has had to dig deeper for second try nominees.

[Janine547]

10:28 AM on 11/25/2011

By "dig deeper" you mean scrape the bottom of the barrel for more nominees.

[henrypapillon]

10:42 AM on 11/25/2011

Yeah, if you didn't like the first ones, you won't like the second ones.

[bobbythompson3333]

12:10 PM on 11/24/2011

If they had guts they would determine Obama's presidency not qualified.

[therealone]

01:46 PM on 11/24/2011

Still mad Obama got Osama, and Bankrupt Bush lost trillions of dollars in Iraq? Don't blame you :)

[goodmd]

11:28 AM on 11/25/2011

Obama has taken a car that was broke down along the road to over the freakin cliff, crashed at the bottom and on fire. I guess he never learned how to drive stick. lol...

[nicko68]

10:24 AM on 11/24/2011

Birds of a Feather!

[2012 POTUS 45]

09:36 AM on 11/24/2011

He isn't either.