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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSomething else to make you vomit:
Senate Judiciary Panel votes to make Brett Talley a Federal Judge. He's been a lawyer for three years. He's never argued a motion, much less tried a case.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/11/senate-panel-votes-to-make-pro-gun-blogger-a-federal-judge.html
The incompetence just keeps compounding daily...
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Something else to make you vomit: (Original Post)
volstork
Nov 2017
OP
The judiciary let us down on Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Freddie Gray.
MadDAsHell
Nov 2017
#1
Money. The NRA is effectively the representative of gun manufacturers.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Nov 2017
#4
MadDAsHell
(2,067 posts)1. The judiciary let us down on Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Freddie Gray.
Id say new blood is in order.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)2. Not that new.
Three years practicing law and no courtroom experience at all? That's insane. And then there's the fact that his only claim to fame is that he's a right-wing blogger and hard-core gun-humper and NRA supporter, whom the ABA unanimously found to be unqualified to be a federal judge.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)3. Now I DO want to vomit.
Why does the NRA need such power?
There has got to be something hiding there. Something bad. Something totally unrelated to rifles.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)4. Money. The NRA is effectively the representative of gun manufacturers.
They scare people into buying more guns, and they scare politicians into supporting them.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)5. Just seems a bit thin.
Like there may be something else they're dealing.