Judicial Committee confirmed Federal Judge on party line vote

[benld74]

A 36 yr old with no trial experience
3 years a lawyer
Last job blogger
Brett J Talley

WTF!!!!!

LA Times. 11-10-17

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-judge-20171110-story.html

[enough]

1. And he can expect to be a federal judge for a good 40 years. NT

[underthematrix]

2. I don't think he will be confirmed by the full senate

[gratuitous]

3. If the Democrats have any moxie, he won't

"Request unanimous consent . . ." "Object!"

It's that easy. Tie up every nomination by insisting on roll call votes for every procedural advancement of a nomination. McConnell used it over and over again to thwart things even his caucus wanted to do.

[underthematrix]

4. They don't have enough Repubs to confirm him.

[struggle4progress]

5. Judicial Nominee Said Hillary Clinton Should Be Jailed

By Miranda Blue | October 18, 2017 9:53 am

... Brett J. Talley, whom President Trump has nominated to a lifetime district court seat in Alabama, is currently an attorney in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Policy, after spending time in the Alabama attorney general’s office and working as a writer for Sen. Rob Portman’s office and Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. He has a sideline as the author of horror fiction ...

During the presidential campaign last summer, Talley tweeted that Hillary Clinton should be in jail ...

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-judicial-nominee-said-hillary-clinton-should-be-jailed/

[struggle4progress]

6. Nominee, 36, who has never tried a case, wins approval of Senate panel

David G. Savage

Brett J. Talley .. was unanimously rated “not qualified” by the American Bar Assn.’s judicial rating committee .. and, as a blogger last year, displayed a degree of partisanship unusual for a judicial nominee, denouncing “Hillary Rotten Clinton” and pledging support for the National Rifle Assn ...

"He's practiced law for less than three years and never argued a motion, let alone brought a case. This is the least amount of experience I've seen in a judicial nominee," said Kristine Lucius, executive vice president of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights ...

... This year, when Sessions moved to the attorney general’s post, Talley took a job in the Justice Department's office that selects judicial nominees ...

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-judge-20171110-story.html