L'Association Américaine du Barreau entretenait déjà des doutes sur Brett Kavanaugh il y a douze ans

Vendredi le juge Kavanaugh a été virulent à l'endroit des Démocrates et plusieurs ont souligné que ce seul biais devrait discréditer sa nomination. L'Association Américaine du Barreau émettait les mêmes réserves en 2006. Brett Kavanaugh ne serait pas le premier juge dont on connaîtrait l'allégeance politique, mais cette réserve de l'Association American du Barreau devrait susciter plus de questionnement au sénat.

" Flash back to the mid-2000s and another fight in the Senate over Kavanaugh’s nomination to a federal court: Democrats for three years had been blocking President George W. Bush’s 2003 nomination of Kavanaugh to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. They argued he was biased, as shown by his work as a lawyer for Bush’s presidential campaign, for an independent counsel’s investigation into President Bill Clinton and for other conservative causes. Republicans kept pushing to make Kavanaugh a judge on the powerful appeals court, year after year. In his defense, they cited multiple reviews by the ABA’s judicial review committee that found him “well qualified” — the big attorney association’s highest possible endorsement, meaning Kavanaugh had outstanding legal abilities and outstanding judicial temperament.

But in May 2006, as Republicans hoped to finally push Kavanaugh’s nomination across the finish line, the ABA downgraded its endorsement.

The group’s judicial investigator had recently interviewed dozens of lawyers, judges and others who had worked with Kavanaugh, the ABA announced at the time, and some of them raised red flags about “his professional experience and the question of his freedom from bias and open-mindedness.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/28/american-bar-association-had-kavanaugh-concerns-years-ago-republicans-dismissed-those-too/?utm_term=.72b798f27a50