White House: Nomination of Alabama Lawyer Brett Talley 'Will Not Be Moving Forward'
Source: NPR
December 13, 201712:16 PM ET
CARRIE JOHNSON
The nomination of Brett Talley, the Justice Department official in line for a lifetime judicial appointment, "will not be moving forward," a Trump administration official told NPR Wednesday.
Talley had been rated "unanimously unqualified" for the post by the American Bar Association this year after an evaluation that questioned his experience. Talley had never argued a case, or even a motion, in federal court, he testified.
Even after Talley's nomination advanced through the Senate Judiciary Committee on an 11-to-9 party-line vote, media reports and good government groups cast doubt on his credentials for the spot on the U.S. District Court in Alabama, along with raising questions about his alleged failures to disclose blog posts and his wife's work in the Trump White House.
Talley, a Harvard Law School graduate, came to personify a wave of criticism over the Trump administration's judicial selections.
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