A decent article from Debra Cassens Weiss, who still appears to be producing the majority of any real writing that happens at the sinking ABAJournal.com.
Consider the reasons given by the standing committee for its "unqualified" rating in this case. Then ask yourself, what should their rating for Elena Kagan have been, applying these same criteria? Of course the ABA is rabidly biased, and particularly so whenever the nominee has made prior statements suggesting philosophical disagreement with Roe v. Wade. The ABA's claim to "nonpartisanship" has become one of the most obvious farces of the last three decades.
What is interesting is that the focus of the Senators' comments remains on the ABA's rabid bias, suggesting that they do not realize the alleged "bar association" can now only claim 12-13% of the nation's licensed attorneys as dues-paying members. It isn't just that ABA's "nonpartisanship" is a total farce; its pompous and asinine pretense to speak for American lawyers at all is an even greater farce. More than its long-demonstrated bias and its dishonest pretensions of neutrality, ABA's nonrepresentation of the profession is the reason it should not have any special voice as a pretended representative of the nation's lawyers.
If the ABA tried to organize as a collective bargaining representative for lawyers, it could not possibly carry the vote. It speaks only for the leftist pseudo-intellectuals who have hijacked the organization, and the ever-shrinking percentage of the nation's lawyers who still tolerate them sufficiently to pay (the now-reduced) dues.
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/gop-senators-criticize-aba-ratings-during-hearing-for-nominee-rated-not-qualified
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