GOP defends Trump judicial nominee with no trial experience
A young Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney is sailing through the confirmation process in the Senate for a lifetime seat as a federal district court judge in Alabama, despite the fact that he has no trial experience and has never filed a motion in court.
Brett Talley, a 36-year-old deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice, has become one of Trump’s most controversial judicial nominees.
The American Bar Association gave him the rare “not qualified" rating two days before the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-9 along party lines to send his nomination to the floor for a vote.
The New York Times reported on Monday that Talley failed to disclose to the committee that he’s married to the White House counsel’s chief of staff.
Republicans are supporting him regardless.
“If you go back, whether Democrats were in control or Republicans were in control, there are several examples where people moved up to that level without necessarily have significant trial experience, professors,” said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.).
Tillis noted that Talley has the support of his home state senators and said he’s going to defer to the committee’s judgment, despite the recent revelation regarding Talley’s wife.
“It is concerning to me that we didn’t know about that disclosure, but I’m not sure if we did know that it would change the outcome of the nomination, but we’re looking at that,” he said.
In a statement, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) called Ann Donaldson’s position in the White House “perhaps the silliest objection of all” to Talley’s nomination.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/360911-republicans-still-backing-trump-judicial-nominee-with-no-trial-experience
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