Ratings Shrink President’s List for Judgeships

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/us/politics/screening-panel-rejects-many-obama-picks-for-federal-judgeships.html

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From: barry levine 
Date: Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 7:46 AM
Subject: re: Ratings Shrink President’s List for Judgeships
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

      The ABA deemed 97% of the president's nominees for judgeships "qualified". That seems scant cause for outcry.  These nominees were suggested by members of Congress, among whom partisanship routinely trumps qualifications. Anyone engaged in research will recognize the service the ABA provides here; we call it "peer review".

Barry Haskell Levine