Q: was the Senate right to removed the American Bar Association from the judicial nomination process?(Symposium)(Panel Discussion)

From: Insight on the News | Date: April 21, 1997| Author: Cooper, N. Lee; Hatch, Orrin G. | Copyright information

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Comm argues that the ABA forfeited its legitimacy as an impartial judicial evaluator by becoming a liberal activist group since the late 1970s. The ABA president fears a return to the partisan bickering over judges that ABA screening has prevented since 1952.

Q: Was the Senate right to remove the American Bar Association from the judicial nomination process?

Yes: Once an impartial screen for nominees, the ABA now is a biased, political ...

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