Opinion: A counterintuitive insight about really young judges
The U.S. federal courthouse in Seattle on Feb. 28. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 6 at 10:00 AM The Senate has just confirmed Allison Jones Rushing to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. As with many of the Trump administration’s nominations, it was decided by a straight party vote .
“She has practiced law for nine years. How many cases has she tried to verdict or judgment? Four. Has she been the lead attorney on any of those cases? No,” Sen. Dick Durbin said on the Senate floor. “That is the most scant, weakest legal resume imaginable for someone who’s seeking a lifetime appointment to the second-highest court of the land.”
Circuit court judges sit on three-judge panels . Consider Rushing, who is 37, on a panel with two other judges, perhaps in either their 50s or 60s and, more often than not, veterans of some lower court .
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