NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Brett J. Talley, President Trump’s nominee to be a federal judge in Alabama, has never tried a case, was unanimously rated ‘not qualified’ by the American Bar Assn.’s judicial rating committee, has practiced law for only three years 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.
On Thursday [11-9-17], the Senate Judiciary Committee, on a party-line vote, approved him for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench.
Talley, 36, is part of what Trump has called the ‘untold story’ of his success in filling the courts with young conservatives…
Civil rights groups and liberal advocates see the matter differently. They denounced Thursday’s vote, calling it ‘laughable’ that none of the committee Republicans objected to confirming a lawyer with as little experience as Talley to preside over federal trials.”
-David G. Savage, “Trump judge nominee, 36, who has never tried a case, wins approval of Senate panel,” The Los Angeles Times online, Nov. 10, 2017 09:50am