Brett Talley, a 36-year-old lawyer whom President Donald Trump nominated for a lifetime federal judgeship, has practiced law for only three years and has yet to try a case.
Before his nomination in September, he had been unequivocal about his political views. "Hillary Rotten Clinton might be the best Trumpism yet," says a tweet from his account, which has since been made private. "A Call to Arms: It's Time to Join the National Rifle Association" was the title of a blog post he wrote in January 2013, a month after a gunman in Newtown, Conn., killed 27 people before taking his own life.