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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A substantial majority of the ABA rates ACB well qualified. [/quote]
Link?[/quote]

I don’t know how to embed the Twitter link but it is a letter from the ABA to Feinstein and Graham.[/quote]

Here is the link.

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2020.10.11%20Chair%20rating%20letter%20to%20Graham%20and%20Feinstein%20re%20nomination%20of%20Amy%20Coney%20Barrett_54996751_1.PDF

It is good to keep in mind that the ABA Standing Committee looks at legal ability.  Skills only.  No one really doubts that she has the intellectual horsepower to be a justice.  The question is whether she will consistently place the Constitution of the United States of America over her personal views.  There is a substantial question, given Barrett's own statements over time, whether she is able to do so.  That is not a judgment about her ability.  That is her choice.  My view, is that she can adhere to both only by withdrawing her candidacy (though I see no reason why she need resign her seat from the 7th Circuit).[/quote]

She practiced litigation for 2 years. I am 31 and I have practiced in a courtroom longer than her. [/quote]

Like Kagan?  Few years at W&C after Mikva and Marshall and before becoming a judge?

Then you would know that being a litigator is not a sine qua non.  Powell was a corporate lawyer and Brennan was a labor lawyer.  And what KIND of litigator is necessary?  Muc of the work of the USSC is administrative law.  Constitutional law?  Individual liberties?

A storied career as a litigator is not necessary.[/quote]

It is certainly helpful, especially given the context that she was not a judge for a very long time. I do want my judges having litigation experience and practical experience before trying the highest cases of the land.[/quote][/quote]

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