Would-Be Federal Judges Are Flunking This Senator’s Judicial ‘Bar Exam’

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I taught for 15 years, and these are the sorts of questions that I’d count on my college students to know the reply to.

Individuals have been nominated for a lifetime place. And so we’ve bought to place the most effective girls and the most effective males that we will on the bench. That begins with realizing the legislation guide from an L.L. Bean catalog.

— Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), in feedback given to Bloomberg Legislation on the “pop quizzes” he provides to judicial nominees throughout their hearings earlier than the Senate Judiciary Committee. Some judicial candidates have carried out so poorly in response to the previous adjunct legislation professor’s questions, known as the Kennedy bar examination, that they’ve withdrawn their nominations. “I’ve bought loads of new questions. I haven’t considered a few of them but,” Kennedy stated, “however I’ll.”

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