Political Quotes

“we have seen too many Trump judicial nominees in recent years who don't know their way around a courtroom. I suspect some of these nominees never even made it through a ``Law and Order'' episode. The majority leader is now rushing a floor vote on Justin Walker, nominated to be a district court judge in Kentucky. Mr. Walker was just reported out of committee last week. The Walker nomination is leapfrogging a dozen other judicial nominees who have been on the calendar longer. The American Bar Association, which does peer review evaluations of nominees, concluded that--Mr. Walker is not qualified to be a Federal trial judge. This is the eighth Trump judicial nominee to be rated ``not qualified'' by the ABA. Mr. Walker is 37 years old and has been out of law school for only 10 years. He has never tried a case as lead or cocounsel, whether civil or criminal. He has only conducted a single deposition. The ABA said that with Walker, ``it was challenging to determine how much of his ten years since graduation from law school has been spent in the practice of law.'' I find it hard to believe that there is a shortage of experienced, qualified attorneys or State court judges in Kentucky who could hit the ground running as a Federal trial judge. In fact, there is an experienced Kentucky State court judge sitting on the Senate Executive Calendar right now--David Tapp, whose nomination to the Court of Federal Claims I supported in the Judiciary Committee.…”