“The problem here is that the people who most need convincing are the people who are least likely to trust the ABA. A lot of us resigned from ABA after getting fed up with its establishment-left liberalism. If she were one of us, she'd have quit, too.”
“She has the kind of qualifications that are sort of classic ABA qualifications. President of a bar, active in the ABA, managing partner of a big firm. The bulk of the committee that will decide her rating is composed of people who look like her.”
“If the ABA were to rank her as unqualified, or merely qualified, that would really change the ballgame. Then you've got the prospect of a left-right alliance coalescing.”
