The following article by Rorie Spill Solberg and Eric N. Waltenburg was posted on the Washington Post website November 28, 2017:
On Nov. 9, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the judicial nomination of Brett Talley, a 37-year-old white male attorney with no trial experience. The American Bar Association rated Talley unqualified to serve as a federal judge, one of four of President Trump’s judicial nominees to get that designation. Senators later learned that he had failed to disclose his close ties to the White House.
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