January 04, 2006
The Gold Standard – Well-Qualified
If the liberals have an ounce of integrity,
this should stop any plans for a filibuster.
Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito received a unanimous well-qualified rating from the American Bar Association on Wednesday, giving his nomination momentum as the Senate prepares for confirmation hearings next week.
The rating came after a vote of an ABA committee and will be delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will launch Alito's confirmation hearings on Monday. Alito will face almost an hour of questioning from each of the 18 senators on the committee.
The ABA rating _ the highest _ is the same that Alito received back in when President Bush's father, George H.W. Bush, nominated him to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
There was one recusal from the voting committee, the ABA said. The group will testify next week during Alito's confirmation hearing about how it arrived at the rating.
For more than 50 years, the ABA has evaluated the credentials of nominees for the federal bench, though the nation's largest lawyers' group has no official standing in the process. Supreme Court nominees get the most scrutiny.
Samuel Alito should become the next justice of the United States Supreme Court. Any attempted filibuster is now grounds for the nuclear option.
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Are you saying that the ABA's opinion on the legal qualifications of a judge should be binding on the Senate? That's an astounding position, especially considering the hostility shown to the ABA by the Republicans in the past.
I'll concede that Scandalito has the academic and intellectual qualifications to sit on the Supreme Court. He's sorely lacking in the moral and integrity areas, though. He should not be confirmed.
Posted by: Dan at Wed Jan 4 13:16:08 2006 (aSKj6)
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Hey -- it was leading Democrats who declared the ABA recommendation to be the "Gold Standard" when the president attempted to take the ABA out of the process. I simply think that the Democrats should live by the principles they set.
And by the way, the ABA includes the moral and ethical areas in their recommendation -- so your cheap-shot smear speaks more about your morals, ethics, and integrity than it does about Alito's
Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Wed Jan 4 14:18:34 2006 (zeuYR)
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What? Now you're requiring ME to be bound by the ABA?! Why are you right-wingers so eager to surrender yourselves and others to authority?
The ABA is good at making sure that someone has the legal background sufficient to become a judge. I've seen that in action - they actually withheld the "well-qualified" label from a friend of mine, who, truth be told, probably didn't have sufficient background to be a federal judge.
But the ABA is not in a position to make the call as to whether someone should be confirmed after failing to recuse himself where he has promised to (where the failure to recuse does not raise to an actual violation of the letter of the rule), or whether someone who broadly hints that lying to get around an inconvenient law is okay. That's not a law committee's area of expertise - that's why we have a Senate which should reject Scandalito.
Posted by: Dan at Thu Jan 5 01:40:08 2006 (aSKj6)
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