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By any standard, Brett Talley would not be considered at all qualified for a seat on the federal bench. At 36-years old, he has been out of law school just 10 years. Which isn't necessarily disqualifying. The fact that he has no significant legal experience, however, is. And yet, he has been nominated by popular vote loser Donald Trump be a federal district judge in Alabama.
In fact, the only thing that seems to recommend Talley as a nominee is his well-established conservative political credentials as a speech writer for both presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2012 and for Sen. Rob Portman, and as a blogger and political commentator. But he has all the qualifications Trump would require.
Like Trump, Talley has frequently used Twitter to express controversial political views and to convey strong opinions. Though his Twitter account is no longer public, the website Archive.org captured several dozen of the Trump judicial nominee’s old tweets that paint a picture of a Trump partisan with dubious views of due process. These tweets were originally pointed out to ThinkProgress in an opposition research email from the liberal group People for the American Way and then independently verified by ThinkProgress.
Among other things, Talley sent at least one tweet suggesting that former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton should be in jail. [...]
Talley also appeared to defend Trump’s use of a six-pointed star in a graphic criticizing Clinton — a graphic that was widely denounced as anti-Semitic — by claiming that the DNC were the real anti-Semites.
In addition to touting Trump’s messages on Twitter, Talley also published a piece for CNN urging “Never Trump” Republicans to support their party’s nominee. “Those who argue that another Clinton White House is somehow preferable to four years of Trump are blind to the consequences,” Talley wrote, “for the nation, for the party and for the conservative movement.”
A dream candidate, if you’re Trump. A nightmare on the bench for the rest of the nation. For like the next 40 years. Democrats, you have to know what to do. Shut this shit down.