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By: Dick Durbin

Date: Nov. 13, 2017

Issues: Government Operations Judicial Branch

"Why is it that more and more of these Trump judicial nominees have minimal experience? #CourtsMatter

The latest nominee Brett Talley has zero trial experience but Senate Republicans want to give him a lifetime appointment as a federal trial judge.

Talley is an unqualified, right-wing ideologue who also did not disclose his marriage to a senior White House lawyer -- a potential conflict of interest:"

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