Call for FBI probe draws attention to association's past Kavanaugh concerns

[DonViejo]

BY TAL AXELROD - 09/29/18 03:53 PM EDT

The American Bar Association's (ABA) statement this week during a crucial point in Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination is drawing attention to another time the group weighed in late in his judicial confirmation process.

In 2006, when Senate Republicans finally hoped to advance Kavanaugh's nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit after three years of Democratic opposition, the ABA downgraded its endorsement of the George W. Bush nominee.

The group’s judicial investigator had interviewed dozens of people in the legal field who had worked with Kavanaugh, some of whom raised concerns regarding “his professional experience and the question of his freedom from bias and open-mindedness," the ABA said in its May 2006 report.

One judge remarked about the nominee's "sanctimonious" presentation in court, arguing that Kavanaugh showed "experience on the level of an associate." One particular lawyer argued that Kavanaugh "dissembled" in a different court proceeding.

The result was a downgrading of the group's previous "well qualified" endorsement — its highest rating — to “qualified,” meaning he met the ABA’s standards to be a federal judge but was not necessarily an outstanding candidate.

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[brush]

1. Well, well, well. The truth will out.

[bobbieinok]

2. And we the public just learn this NOW?!?!

Totally incompetant/complicit M$$M!!

[idcdu]

3. The ABA needs to remove Kavs ranking to

"Useless Piece of Human Diseased Crap"

[Hoyt]

4. He clearly doesn't come across as a studious legal scholar.

[2naSalit]

5. He's a schlepp!

Wonder who he paid/bulled into writing his papers for him in school.