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Editor: Rod Sullivan
Profession: Maritime Attorney

Category: General

Apparently very political. For example, the ABA Committee recently lowered the judicial qualification of Judge Brett Kavanaugh on the D.C. Court of Appeals from "well qualified" to "qualified" -- without even permitting him to appear and respond, as its own rules require.

Here is a guy who graduated from Yale undergraduate and Yale Law, clerked for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit and Judge Walter Stapleton of the Third Circuit, and who was a fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General of the United States. If the guy is only "qualified," a luke-warm reference, then an awful lot of really smart people missed his mediocrity along the way.

What could account for such a mediocre rating? Perhaps it was that Kenneth Starr was the Solicitor General at the time that Kavanaugh did his fellowship. You see, Kavanaugh was an Associate for Independent Counsel Ken Starr, and headed up the investigation into the death of former Clinton White House Deputy Counsel Vincent Foster.

A little retribution from the ABA, you think? Pretty soon Michael Moore will be getting a "well qualified" rating (and he's not even a lawyer) from the Committee.