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Judges and Judiciary,
State Bar & Bar Associations

Oct. 1, 2018

In unprecedented move, ABA leader speaks out on Kavanaugh confirmation

The ABA president urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to wait for an FBI investigation. There’s a slight chance the ABA could conduct an investigation of its own.

In what experts called an unprecedented move, the American Bar Association president sent a letter Thursday to the Senate Judiciary Committee urging them to wait for an FBI investigation before voting on Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. The ABA has rated Kavanaugh as “well qualified,” but it is not entirely impossible that the ABA’s rating could change in light of last week’s hearing on sexual assault allegations, according to an ABA spoke...

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