Opinion | Glenn Kirschner: 'Several Trump nominees were rated 'not qualified' to serve as judges by the American Bar Association but nevertheless were pushed through the confirmation process by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.' - NBCNewsTHINK
Historically, before a person was considered for such a prestigious and weighty appointment, they had to have accumulated a lifetime of service and a demonstrated ability to handle some of our country’s most difficult, thorny and often politically charged matters.
Roberts, for example, was appointed to the D.C Circuit Court by President George W. Bush in 2003, after serving as an aide to Attorney General William French Smith, associate counsel to President Ronald Reagan and principal deputy solicitor general of the United States. Judge James Buckley was appointed to the court by President Ronald Reagan in 1985, after serving as a U.S. senator from New York, undersecretary of state for international security affairs and counselor for the State Department.
These men all have at least two things in common — they were conservatives appointed by a Republican president after they had long, distinguished careers. Historically, before a person was considered for such a prestigious and weighty appointment, they had to have accumulated a lifetime of service. Turning to 38-year-old Justin Walker, the person McConnell — and, I suppose, Trump — thinks is exactly the right person to be joining the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.in 2009. He clerked for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, when the latter was a D.C. Court of Appeals judge. Walker then taught legal writing for a few years at a law school in Kentucky. In 2019, McConnell recommended him for a position as a federal judge.
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