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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 906091" data-attributes="member: 12952">Re: Obamanation here today[h=2]Most Of Obama’s Minority Judicial Nominees “Not Qualified”[/h]President Obama’s quest to transform federal courts by appointing&nbsp; unqualified leftist ideologues is worse than previously imagined,&nbsp; according to a mainstream newspaper that reports the notoriously liberal&nbsp; American Bar Association (ABA) has rejected a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/us/politics/screening-panel-rejects-many-obama-picks-for-federal-judgeships.html?_r=2&amp;hp" target="_blank">“significant number” </a>of potential judicial nominees, most of them minorities and women.But the White House has agreed not to nominate any candidates deemed&nbsp; unqualified by the ABA, the 400,000-member trade association that&nbsp; provides law school accreditation. Though it claims to be an impartial&nbsp; group of lawyers, the ABA usually takes liberal positions on divisive&nbsp; issues and Democratic/liberal nominees are more likely to receive the&nbsp; group’s highest rating of “well qualified” compared to their&nbsp; Republican/conservative counterparts. This has been documented in&nbsp; various studies, including a <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract-id=1368891" target="_blank">recent one</a> conducted by political science departments at three Georgia universities.The number of Obama hopefuls stamped “not qualified” already exceeds the&nbsp; total opposed by the ABA during the eight-year administrations of Bill&nbsp; Clinton and George W. Bush.&nbsp;That means Obama’s&nbsp; rejection rate is more than triple what it was under either of those&nbsp; previous administrations.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 906091, member: 12952"] [b]Re: Obamanation here today[/b] [h=2]Most Of Obama’s Minority Judicial Nominees “Not Qualified”[/h]President Obama’s quest to transform federal courts by appointing unqualified leftist ideologues is worse than previously imagined, according to a mainstream newspaper that reports the notoriously liberal American Bar Association (ABA) has rejected a [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/us/politics/screening-panel-rejects-many-obama-picks-for-federal-judgeships.html?_r=2&hp"]“significant number” [/URL]of potential judicial nominees, most of them minorities and women. But the White House has agreed not to nominate any candidates deemed unqualified by the ABA, the 400,000-member trade association that provides law school accreditation. Though it claims to be an impartial group of lawyers, the ABA usually takes liberal positions on divisive issues and Democratic/liberal nominees are more likely to receive the group’s highest rating of “well qualified” compared to their Republican/conservative counterparts. This has been documented in various studies, including a [URL="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract-id=1368891"]recent one[/URL] conducted by political science departments at three Georgia universities. The number of Obama hopefuls stamped “not qualified” already exceeds the total opposed by the ABA during the eight-year administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. That means Obama’s rejection rate is more than triple what it was under either of those previous administrations. [/QUOTE]

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