Utah’s two U.S. senators, Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee, both members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, have turned the judicial-nominating process and the constitutional concept of balance of powers into a joke.
Their latest clown trick was to join the other committee Republicans in approving for full Senate consideration President Donald Trump’s nominee to the U.S. District Court in Alabama.
Brett J. Talley is a Harvard Law School graduate, but, at 36, he has been an attorney for only three years and has never tried a case in court. He has been given a “not qualified” rating by the American Bar Association.