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Not qualified: the American Bar Association and its role in our confirmation process.
WITH its lurch leftwards in recent decades, the American Bar Association can no longer plausibly claim to be a nonpartisan professional-services organization for lawyers. But even as it has degenerated into another liberal advocacy group, the ABA has trumpeted the imprimatur that its continuing privileged role in the judicial-confirmation process accords it. It's time to put an end to that.
In 2001, President Bush eliminated the special role that the ABA had long played in assessing judicial candidates before they were nominated. Little changed, however, because the Senate Judiciary Committee maintained the ABA's role in its own process. Among other things, a ...
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...today said that, unless President Bush urges Congress to reauthorize...came in a letter to President Bush in which he expressed...citizens." In calling on President Bush to press Congress to...the letter, visit the ABA Web site at http...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 18, 2005 700+ words
...Jr. this week urged President Bush to support referring...utilized." In a letter to President Bush, Grey applauded the...Damien LaVera in the ABA Division for Media Relations...legal profession, the ABA works to improve the...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 29, 1990 700+ words
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 8, 2001 700+ words
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 14, 2006 700+ words
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 29, 1989 700+ words
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- American Bar Association praises President Bush's new drug policy.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 11, 1989 700+ words
...AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION PRAISES PRESIDENT BUSH'S NEW DRUG POLICY WASHINGTON...President L. Stanley Chauvin Jr. to President Bush: On behalf of the American Bar...issue a major focus of my term as ABA president. I write today to ask...